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  • New Article: Comics vs. Manga

    I recently had a new paper appear in the journal Image[&]Narrative about the difference in the structuring of comic panels in American comics and Japanese manga. Here’s the abstract: A […]

  • Comics and pictorial metaphor

    I recently discovered that the “Semiotics Institute Online” has a few full online courses that are offered related to comics. One of those is a class on metaphor pictorial theory […]

  • 99 examples of narrative

    Matt Madden’s 99 Ways to Tell a Story is a great exercise in creativity where he draws the same scene (him stopping work to get food, while talking with his […]

  • Busy Times…

    I wish I could blog more these days, but life has been crazy. I’m still playing catch-up from my trip to California earlier in the week (and to Rhode Island […]

  • CNS 2011

    I will be speaking next week at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society conference in San Francisco. If you’re in the area and coming to the conference, I’ll be presenting in Slide […]

  • Comic Scramblers

    Busy-ness has been in high gear here in visual language research land. I’m working on submitting several papers for publications over the next few weeks, and am over half the […]

  • Review: Children Interpret a Comic

    This insightful article examines children’s understandings of comic books over time using a Western comic A Gunman in Town!. The study looked at ten children in each of 3rd, 5th, […]

  • NY Times book review… of my parents

    Every now and then I’m compelled to plug something friends or relations do, and I’m super excited that my parents’ latest book has been reviewed in the New York Times. […]

  • Talk this Friday

    For those of you in the Boston area…I will be giving a lecture next Friday, Jan 28th at 4pm in the Tufts University Psychology Department that is open to the […]

  • New England Comic Arts in the Classroom Conference

    Happy New Year all! I’ve recently been confirmed as a speaker at the New England Comic Arts in the Classroom Conference, a conference aimed discussing the role of comics in […]