I’ve been ridiculously too busy to blog lately, largely due to my upcoming exam/project on biopsychology. Once that’s over it’s summertime! (i.e. time for me to work on projects otherwise […]
I’ve done another podcast with the folks at VizThink, this time debating Yuri Engelhardt and Dave Gray on what constitutes a visual language and the nature of visual language grammar. […]
One of the topics I debated closing out my new essay on page layout (pdf) with was its relationship to McCloud’s definition of “comics.” As most know, McCloud’s definition is […]
The Language Evolution blog posts this interesting youtube video showing an elephant painting a picture of an elephant: I’ve vocalized often that as much as there is a debate about […]
1.5 seconds per panel. That’s how long it takes on average for wordless panels to be read. I recently completed a very exciting study that asked people to read four-panel […]
Since various concerns have popped up here and there about my latest essay on page layouts (pdf), I figured I should take the time to reiterate responses to some of […]
So far I’ve been very pleased at the response to my latest essay, “Navigating Comics”, on how people navigate through page layouts (pdf). As several responses have been rolling in […]
I’m very happy to announce that I have a new essay online: Navigating Comics: Reading Strategies of Page Layouts (pdf). This paper reports the findings of an experiment I conducted […]
On this page I found another great example of a page by Jae Lee that defies the “temporal mapping” idea that successive panels are successive moments: I’m unaware of the […]
Steven Seagle has a decent piece up at the First Second blog about visual storytelling. He nicely taps into a simplified version of some of the same things that I’ve […]