“Neil Cohn’s new book is the result of over twenty years of researching and writing about global comics–what they are, their underlying structure, and cultural variations in their development. With academic interest in global comics at an all-time high, it will delight serious students of a powerful visual medium.”
– Frederik L. Schodt, award-winning author of Manga! Manga!: The World of Japanese Comics
New lab members!
This Fall we welcome our visiting PhD student Maki Miyamoto to work on onomatopoeia in our TINTIN Project!
Upcoming Events
September 13-15 2023. Keynote talk. Polish Cognitive Linguistics Association. Krosno, Poland
September 28-30 2023. Keynote talk. IGEL Conference in Monopoli, Italy
Organizations to support
Latest Blog Post
I’m a little late to post it, but in keeping with my annual tradition, here’s a rundown of all the papers I published in 2022. There were a lot of […]
Recent papers
Coderre, Emily L. and Neil Cohn. 2023. Individual differences in the neural dynamics of visual narrative comprehension. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review.
Cohn, Neil, Bruno Cardoso, Bien Klomberg, and Irmak Hacımusaoğlu. 2023. The Visual Language Research Corpus (VLRC): An annotated corpus of comics from Asia, Europe, and the United States. Language Resources and Evaluation.
Patrick, Morgan, Neil Cohn, John Mertus, and Sheila Blumstein. 2023. Sequences in harmony: Cognitive interactions between musical and visual narrative structure. Acta Psychologia. 238:103981
Books on Visual Language