I had a link sent to me recently asking about this blog post that claims all comic pages regardless of content are read at 3.75 seconds per page. A relevant […]
I’m very excited to say a big hearty Congratulations to my research assistant Natalie, who graduated today from Tufts. She put in an incredible year’s worth of work in the […]
For those of you in the Toronto area, I will be giving the first talk in the Visual Thinking lecture series at the University of Toronto on Thursday, May 14th […]
Hey everybody, I once again have another comics related experiment online and would be extremely grateful for your help! This experiment consists of making judgements about various created comic strips, […]
A comment on my review of Magnussen’s piece on semiotics in comics asked me to expand on this part: More interestingly, she claims that the “still-images of actions” are also […]
Magnussen, Anne. (2000). The Semiotics of C.S. Peirce as a Theoretical Framework for the Understanding of Comics. In A. Magnussen & H.-C. Christiansen (Eds.), Comics and Culture: Analytical and Theoretical […]
As I’m coming up on Spring Break here at Tufts, all seems well as we (hopefully) transition into Springtime (hopefully — a Californian like me can’t take much more of this […]
Tan, Ed S. 2001. The Telling Face in Comic Strip and Graphic Novel. In The Graphic Novel, edited by J. Baetens: Leuwen University Press. This study looked at the knowledge […]
The Tufts Daily, Tufts University’s student newspaper, has a feature article about me and my work in today’s edition, which is also readable online.
Over at TalkAboutComics, Joey Manley asks “Why do people draw comics?”, and makes the observation that… A lot of people who read comics also make them. Maybe even most people.…Almost […]