In Understanding Comics, McCloud made the claim that manga supposedly uses more circuitous storytelling because of the formats of their books. In my paper on Japanese VL, I dismiss this […]
Apparently we’re upon the 30th anniversary of Jim Davis’ Garfield strip. As a ten year old I was pretty obsessed with the Garfield books, and can probably mark meeting Jim […]
Nagai, Masayoshi, Nobutaka Endo, and Kumada Takatsune. 2007. “Measuring Brain Activities Related to Understanding Using near-Infrared Spectroscopy (Nirs).” In Human Interface and the Management of Information. Methods, Techniques and Tools […]
Last weekend on public television I saw a fantastic biography about Pete Seeger, the influential folk singer and activist. Throughout, Seeger stressed his desire to sing with people, not to […]
Huzzah! Today is the sixth year this website has been online! If I remember correctly, I posted everything online while the Lakers were in the playoffs about to go to […]
As long as we’re on the topic of comics that people clip out for me, here’s another one that my advisor passed along. For some reason, he’s rather partial to […]
I learned to great shock and sorrow this morning that Rory Root, owner and operator of Comic Relief in Berkeley, has passed away. Rory was a phenomenal presence in the […]
I haven’t gotten a newspaper at home in years, but every now and then my father sends me clippings of comics or articles. The comic that he seems to send […]
I was recently asked by the VizThink people to devote a post to the prompt: PowerPoint: A powerful tool poorly used or a poor tool overused?, so… here goes… I […]
I am currently in the refractory period of the semester, enjoying the freedom of summer break starting and the ability to work on all those projects I usually don’t get […]