Hey, my blog has now just slightly moved addresses over to: http://blog.emaki.net/. This was one of the previous address, but now it’s the main address along with http://www.thevisuallinguist.com. You will […]
Derek Kirk Kim uses a fun and common conceptual metaphor in today’s installment of his ongoing series “Praxis & Allies” (which you should be reading). Here, the character’s head explodes […]
I’m very excited to say that, after working on this project for 2.5 years, I’ll finally be defending my Master’s project — “Balancing Grammar and Semantics in ‘Comics’: Global Structure […]
So, I unfortunately haven’t had much an opportunity to blog lately. My apologies to the usual readers! Some updates… I have been working hard at finishing my latest projects, which […]
I’ve posted every now and again about a convention in comics that I’ve called “action stars”, where a whole panel is replaced by a star shaped “flash” that essentially represents […]
Patric Lewandowski offers this video lecture of his attempt to define comics, based on his earlier column from Comixtalk. He covers a lot of ground, meshing numerous memes of comics […]
One of Scott McCloud’s more wacky inventions is the game Five Card Nancy which is based on the old comic strip Nancy. The basic premise of the game is that […]
My friend Alex sends along this link to a gift pack of “storycards”. Basically, you can use these cards in sequences to create lots of different novel stories. The idea […]
Okay, one more status update then we’re back to some real posts… My brainwave study has nicely concluded and I’ve now moved on to analyzing the results. Things look fantastic, […]
Unfortunately blogging has had to take somewhat of a back seat lately, as my workload has been just crazy. At the end of this week I should finish running participants […]