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  • Transition Overload!

    I’ve frequently heard it said that every panel in a comic has to connect to every other panel. I’ve tried to go about showing the problems with individual transitions or […]

  • Learning to read your brain(waves)

    So, today marks a minor milestone for me, as I ran my very first study of comics looking at people’s brainwaves. The image here to the right is from that […]

  • Review: Adventures in Cartooning

    Adventures in Cartooning is a fun and creative book by James Sturm and two of his graduates from the Center for Cartoon Studies, Andrew Arnold and Alexis Frederick-Frost, and published […]

  • Review: The Power of Comics

    Duncan, Randy & Matthew J. Smith. 2009. The Power of Comics. New York: Continuum Books The Power of Comics is a recently released “first textbook ever” for “comics studies”, authored […]

  • Panels connected by sequentiality

    Derik has a short post that makes a nice note about how understanding of individual panels is sometimes conditioned by their context in a sequence. I think this is a […]

  • Review: Metaphor and Metonymy in Comics Storytelling

    Kukkonen, Karin. 2008. Beyond Language: Metaphor and Metonymy in Comics Storytelling. English Language Notes 46 (2):89-98. This paper from the literature point of view explores meaning-making in comics, particularly from […]

  • Japanese children, drawing, and imitation

    These are a couple great articles by Brent Wilson about how children in different cultures learn to draw, particularly contrasting the Japanese with other cultures. Both articles contain more extensive […]

  • Leigh’s Paintings

    As long as I’m recharging a bit for future blogging and managing my preparation for the new semester here at school, I felt I should at least devote one blog […]

  • Blogging MIA

    I have unfortunately been remiss in blogging lately. I actually just got back from an intense 8-day long Soo Bahk Do martial art test (not to mention the month and […]

  • Comics reading: Competence and performance

    Often times when I give talks, especially concerning layout or the visual grammar of sequences of images, one of the questions inevitably says something along the lines of “But, there’s […]