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  • A Terrifying Message from Al Gore

  • Iconic Bias, Part 1.5

    Here’s another subtle example of this Iconic Bias that I discussed in my earlier post. From a recent new interview with Scott McCloud, the interviewer asked: “What’s hard for you […]

  • Linguistic mythbusting

    Here’s an article about some of the most pervasive myths about language and questioning why linguistics is not a more prevalently studied or respected field. I personally have an answer […]

  • Comics Generation Thesis

    Jason Alderman has completed his (downloadable) Masters Thesis on “Generating Comics Narrative to Summarize Wearable Computer Data.” Here’s the abstract: As people record their entire lives to disk, they need […]

  • Are you ready to Folk Rock!?

    I don’t often write about my non-theory tastes on this blog, like music, though I keep meaning to. So, here’s a good place to start. Today, I got my copy […]

  • Iconic Bias, Part 1

    I’ve tried to point out in some of my writings that there is an “Art” perspective that dominates the usage of graphic creation in our culture. Its primary emphasis is […]

  • San Diego, coming soon!!

    Thanks go to Scott McCloud for kindly linking to my latest Comixpedia article on “visual rhyming.” He suggests “Eye Rhymes” as another good term, and I agree, it does sound […]

  • Re-un-defining “Comics”

    Every now and then it’s good to revisit the fundamentals. I had articulated the whole division between “comics” and “visual language” fairly well in a listserve discussion awhile back, so […]

  • Looking Ahead to the Past

    Akin to the spirit of my last post, in the latest issue of Cognitive Science is an article about Aymara Andean metaphors for time. The authors claim that Andeans have […]

  • Thoughts on Time

    I’ve had a couple very interesting (and heated) discussions about “time” with friends recently that might be interesting to share. What had inspired one of these discussions was a book […]