A friend of mine recently pointed me to an unusual debate that’s raging about a recent Spider-Man comic where Peter Parker apparently is within the mind of Dr. Octopus and […]
One of the important basic tasks of doing research on the visual language used in comics is to identify the foundational components that go into our comprehension of sequential images. […]
So, today marks 7 years that my blog has now been online, and 10.5 years for the website. How time flies! I’ve received a lot of great feedback from people […]
I’m proud to say that I’m featured in an article in this month’s Discover Magazine! The article was written by the excellent Carl Zimmer, who good-naturedly let me run him […]
In my last post, I addressed the basic idea for a “visual language” as being a sequence of meaningful images guided by a system of constraints (i.e., a grammar). In […]
I’ve now had this website for over 10 years, and have been blogging for almost 6 years, so it may be worth revisiting the fundamental ideas of my research over […]
I’m happy to say that I have a new article published in the journal Human Development that argues that learning how to draw is similar to learning how to speak. […]
On the non-theory front, I’m happy to announce that I have a piece in the recently released second volume of The Graphic Canon edited by Russ Kick. It’s a collection of […]
In this study, the authors wanted to know how much time it would take to comprehend each image of a sequence of images, both for how long each panel stayed […]
I’m pleased to say that I now have a new article out about the cross-cultural differences between American comics—both Mainstream and Indy comics—and Japanese manga: “Framing attention in Japanese and […]