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  • Dunkin’ pictograms

    Speaking of pictographic writing systems that will never be universal, Fabricari sends along this logo from Dunkin’ Donuts: I’ve been seeing that logo for over a year now, and never […]

  • Sorry, there will never be a universal writing system

    Jochen Gos emailed me awhile back with news of her new book Icon-Typing and website Icon-language which is a font that creates pictograms when a person types in their own […]

  • License plate linguistics

    Here’s a little fun with writing and ambiguity. A few nights ago I saw a license plate with some friends that read: OYABABY Oddly enough, I parsed this first as […]

  • Bizarro Scholarship

    While listening today to the last lecture of this semester’s Intro to Linguistics class that I TAed for, I was thinking a bit about how some of the underlying issues […]

  • More reruns! Comics≠art

    Continuing with the re-posting of my Comixpedia articles, Sequart.com has a posting of my old article Comics’ Identity Crisis: Claiming “Art” is a Misguided Quest. It’s weird to see these […]

  • I love this time of year

    And now, for the 2006 edition of my annual Big Game poem: Why so sad little stanfurd tree?By Neil Cohn, November 2006 Oh why so sad little stanfurd tree?Afraid you’ll […]

  • Time essay analyzed

    In Derik’s continuing exploration of panel transitions (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3), he does an interesting job of dissecting my latest essay “Time Frames… Or Not.” To keep things […]

  • The Brain

    Not much is known about the Brain. Here’s a nice little video explaining about it:

  • Problems with Transitions

    Over at Derik’s blog he’s been examining McCloud’s panel transitions based on influence from film theory (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 …more to come). While […]

  • Comics software sucks

    I apologize in advance for this rant… One of the pre-installed applications on my new macbook is the “comic” making program “Comic Life.” I’d played with the demo before, but […]