Blog

  • Universcale

    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 […]

  • Podcast: “Grammar” in visual language

    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. […]

  • Navigating page layouts = defining “comics”?

    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 […]

  • Clever Dumbo?

    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 […]

  • Panel Time!

    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 […]

  • Navigating Comics Plus

    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 […]

  • Essay origins

    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 […]

  • New Essay: Navigating Comics

    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 […]

  • Time and The Torch

    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 […]

  • Some links and whatnots

    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 […]