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  • Murphy’s law strikes, and ComicCon looms

    Isn’t it always the case… just as I had a ton of work to do and preparation for ComicCon, my computer skizzed out and is now in the shop. Argh! […]

  • Ballerina

    Today’s Meditation is “Ballerina”, a piece written as a companion to Autumn…. It was partially based on a girl I dated whose face reminded me of a porcelain doll. It […]

  • Not Just Perception

    So, it seems this Art vs. Language/Iconic Bias stuff is on the brain these days… A great deal of research on “art” or looking at drawings has been situated in […]

  • Autumn…

    With the completion of my second visual adaptation of the John Keats poem La Belle Dame Sans Merci, I’m going to start posting a few of my smaller works. I […]

  • More on ComicCon

    So, I’ve found the official Comic-Con programming guide is now posted. Here’s the Friday description for my panel: 1:15-2:30 Comic Arts Conference Session #6: Visual Language—Neil Cohn (Meditations: 1999-2002)  reveals […]

  • Webcomics writers unite!

    So, I successfully returned from my trip to Boston, having found a place to live, which is good, because then I don’t have to start school living out of a […]

  • Comic-Con Visual Language Panel

    As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I’ll be speaking on a panel about “Comic Theory” at the Comic Arts Conference at San Diego’s Comic-Con International. The talk is going […]

  • Iconic Bias, Part 3

    So, last post I talked about how criticism of certain drawing styles stems from the fact that critics might speak a different dialect of visual language. The Art Perspective would […]

  • La Belle Dame Sans Merci… no Part Tres I swear!

    I’ve posted the concluding installment to my second visual adaptation of the John Keats poem La Belle Dame Sans Merci. Now that it’s done, I’d love to hear people’s thoughts […]

  • Iconic Bias, Part 2

    As I discussed in my previous post, there is an Art Perspective belief that people should learn to draw from “real life” and not from copying others. In that post, […]