Thanks to my good friend Dan Christensen, I here present my talk from Comic-Con 2015, “The Scientific Study of The Visual Language of Comics.” This was my introductory talk for a panel that consisted of three of undergraduates who had been working with me, and provides an overview how I believe that research on comics—or rather, the visual language used in comics—should progress. Alas, note there are a few blips where the video jumps due to some technical difficulties, but only a few seconds are lost.
For those wishing to follow up on things mentioned in the video… Note that my book is available here, and the experiments/diagnostics discussed are available in papers here. In particular, for more advocacy of methods of scholarship about comics, I recommend the paper “Building a better comic theory” (pdf). My experiment about page layouts is in “Navigating Comics II” (pdf). Prior works using corpus analyses are in the “Cross-cultural” papers section.
Enjoy!
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