Every now and then I come across people who really resist the sort of work I’m doing. They dislike the idea of academic investigation of “comics,” as if it somehow […]
Apparently, I’ve won an award. I just got an email saying that my “paper, The Grammar of Comics, was selected as the winner of the M. Thomas Inge Award for […]
Dirk links to this interesting post where cartoonists were asked to draw their characters blindfolded (versions on the right). This Chester Gould one is pretty impressive… What’s interesting to note […]
Way back in January, I had a piece published in the innaugural issue of the online Public Journal of Semiotics, yet kept forgetting to post about it. The essay there […]
As I’ve probably mentioned before, I’m currently building a corpus of comics to be used in research related projects. I’ve had some donations from companies already, and Dark Horse just […]
A friend of mine and I were talking about comic distribution and some interesting points came up, including how McCloud’s definition of “comics” might actually hurt the growth of the […]
Dirk links to this blog post with a scanlation of the manga “Abstraction” by Shintaro Kago. It’s a pretty incredible formalist experiment, and definitely worth checking out. (beware…it’s a bit […]
I’m shocked at the response that my quote in yesterday’s ¡Journalista! (thanks Dirk!) has generated. Is it really so hard to believe there’s a separation between the structure of a […]
This is pretty amazing new technology for photos that aggregates the information in many photos to create virtual environments, not to mention a pretty impressive navigational tool for photos and […]
The latest issue of the online journal ImageText just came out with a couple articles of note (to my tastes): The first one examines the role of comics in education, […]