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  • Review: Narrative Structure in Comics by Barbara Postema

    Barbara Postema’s new book, Narrative Structure in Comics, joins a nice list of books on comic theory to emerge this year, and it provides some interesting analyses and insights. The book is clearly […]

  • Corpus analyses of comics

    I stumbled across this interesting project called the eBDtheque database which has started coding various comic pages to create a searchable corpus. The full project is online here, while their […]

  • Methodological advice for comics scholarship

    In my previous post, I drew a distinction between the type of scholarship often done by people who are creators of comics (i.e., fluent in the visual language they study) […]

  • Comic creation expertise and theory building

    When I first started entering into discussions about visual language research, the fact that I actively created comics seemed like an important point that I would often stress. While I […]

  • Full year of comic theory books

    2013 seems to be quite the year for books about theories of the comic medium! There’ve been at least four volumes that have come out this year, plus my own, […]

  • New paper: Prediction, events, and the advantage of Agents

    I’m excited to say that I have a new paper out in the journal Cognitive Psychology with my good friend Martin Paczynski! This one looks specifically at the structure of events […]

  • El Lingüista Ilustrado

    Hey Spanish-speakers! I’m excited to announce that some of my articles will now be translated to Spanish in an ongoing series in the digital comics magazine Revisita Exégesis starting with the […]

  • Eurotrip 2013

    I’ve just returned from an exciting trip at the Cognitive Science Society conference in Berlin. My presentation was a brief version of my dissertation work (amusingly, roughly the same material from […]

  • Scott McCloud and the scientific method

    After my talk at Comic-Con I was delighted to be able to chat with Scott McCloud for awhile. He actually came to my talk, and I think it was one […]

  • The Chinese Room

    A few months back I got a request from my friend and colleague from Tufts, the philosopher Dan Dennett. Dan is the co-director of the Tufts Center for Cognitive Studies […]