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  • New paper: Building a better “comic theory”

    I’m happy to say that I have a new paper (pdf), “Building a better “comic theory,” in the latest issue of the journal Studies in Comics. In this one I critique […]

  • New book on Australian Sand Narratives

    Anyone who has read my new book or followed my work online for the past several years knows that I frequently talk about sand narratives created by Australian Aboriginals as […]

  • An update: Talks of future past

    I’ve got roughly a month left of my summer (yay quarter system!), and it’s been a wild ride so far. I’ve given talks in Germany, Québec City, and Seattle, and […]

  • “Bad anatomy” and body objectification in comics

    Greg Land cover and redrawn version from www.themarysue.com The recent uproar over the covers of Spider-Woman books by Marvel has lead to cries that they are both sexist and poorly […]

  • Violating your drawings!

    Here’s a fun blog post by Chris Schweizer on spotting “compositional tangents” while drawing comics. For those unfamiliar, Chris does the excellent “Crogan’s Adventures” series (Crogan’s Loyalty, Crogan’s March, and Crogan’s Vengence) which […]

  • Visual style and visual morphology

    While I was on the University of Bremen campus in Germany last month, I stumbled on a very appropriate poster hanging in the linguistics department (right) which sponsors a nice […]

  • Page layouts with the Golden Ratio

    I was recently sent a link to this blog post from back in May that discusses the “Golden Ratio” in the creation of comic pages by Bizhan Khodabandeh. He has some […]

  • Recap: Cognitive Science 2014

    This past weekend I got to enjoy the annual Cognitive Science Society conference in Québec City, Canada. Unfortunately, this year’s conference conflicted with ComicCon, but in the end it was […]

  • Rules of Emoji

    A friend passed along this article recently which describes research by Tyler Schnoebelen that explores the rules people use when writing with emoji/emoticons. When people hear that I work on […]

  • Germany workshops recap

    I’m a few weeks late to post on it, but my workshops in Germany were wonderfully fun! I’ve spent the intervening week traveling throughout the East Coast, so I’m only […]