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  • It’s not always about the brain

    This topic arose elsewhere recently and I thought it would be worth bringing up here. As someone who now actually does have at least a little data about how the […]

  • Visual Linguist salute!

    Journalista blogger Dirk Deppey has announced that today is his last day blogging on that site. Dirk has done a fantastic job as the “go to” aggregator of comic information […]

  • Thanks!

    Thanks to everyone who took my recent experiment, as well as to everyone that linked to it! I’m greatly appreciative for the support, and I assure you that this goes […]

  • Take my experiment!

    Once again I have a brief experiment online and I’d be extremely grateful for your help! This one involves looking at various strips and making predictions about them. Participation enters […]

  • Review: Through Navajo Eyes

    I recently discovered a gem of a book called Through Navajo Eyes by Sol Worth and John Adair. This is a fascinating book from the early 1970s where the authors […]

  • Going off the grid for a bit…

    I’ve been a bit absent from blogging lately, largely due to being crazy busy with work, but next week I’m legitimately going off the grid for a martial art retreat. […]

  • Review: “Copying and Artistic Behaviors”

    Smith argues that the negative views on “copying” demonstrated by art educators since the 50s is misplaced in some contexts. She claims that some forms of copying are good, and […]

  • 6 Q & As

    Webcomicker William George posts a quick Q&A with me on his blog. This is part of a series of quick interviews he’s doing with various people connected to webcomics. I […]

  • Kid’s sequential drawings

    This is a summary/review of an article I thought had particularly compelling evidence for why understanding sequential images is a learned trait. Highlights are all mine… Narratives of urban Japanese […]

  • New York ComicCon and a video

    Though I hadn’t planned on it originally, it looks like I’ll be attending the New York Comic Con this year, randomly enough as a guest of Archie Comics. After ComicCon […]