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  • Take my online comics experiment!

    At long last, I have another comic experiment ready to go that needs your help, dear reader! This survey will help us prepare our next study looking at how the […]

  • A checklist for decent scholarship

    I’ve read a ridiculous amount of research on the comprehension of sequential images the last few years. Many people have written papers about this topic, often from many different disciplines. […]

  • On tap…

    Thank you to everyone who came out for my talk last week at the New York Comic Con! I had a great time giving the presentation, so I hope it […]

  • New York ComicCon 2011

    Next Saturday on October 15th I’ll be speaking at the New York ComicCon for the first time. Here’s my blurb from the program: 4:00-5:30 Comics Studies Conference 6: Understanding Comics […]

  • Development of drawing abilities

    The book Making Sense of Children’s Drawings by John Willats puts forth a compelling theory of how kids learn to draw, and the course of that development. To Willats, drawings link up […]

  • Graphical Abstracts

    A friend of mine passed along this interesting link today. The academic publisher Elsevier looks like it’s now accepting “graphical abstracts” for scientific papers in journals: A Graphical Abstract should […]

  • What is the human language faculty?

    My mentor, Ray Jackendoff, has a new article out in the journal Language that mentions my research (as well as has some illustrations by me): Jackendoff, Ray. 2011. What is […]

  • Segmentations in visual narrative

    Gernsbacher’s 1985 paper “Surface information loss in comprehension” is an important article on the comprehension of sequential images, and one that has informed much of my current research. It is […]

  • Waning days of studenthood

    Tuesday will begin what looks to be my last year of grad school, which means my last year of being a student. Yikes! That means I’m currently balancing finishing my […]

  • What do you do with a comic?

    Based on some disagreements I’ve had with people lately, I’m curious what the general populace thinks. Please take my poll (and pass it on!): Blog Polls Blog Polls Blog Polls […]