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  • Wizard World Chicago

    Well, I got back to Chicago yesterday, safe and sound from San Diego. My computer is still in the shop, so I’ll wait to post my Con-report til I can properly fill it with links and some photos. In the meantime… If you’re in the Chicago area next week and want to come meet me…

  • Murphy’s law strikes, and ComicCon looms

    Isn’t it always the case… just as I had a ton of work to do and preparation for ComicCon, my computer skizzed out and is now in the shop. Argh! Luckily, my talk was already saved to my flash drive, so that won’t be affected, nor should any of the handouts I’ll have for the…

  • Ballerina

    Today’s Meditation is “Ballerina”, a piece written as a companion to Autumn…. It was partially based on a girl I dated whose face reminded me of a porcelain doll. It was also one of my first computer attempts, again just to letter, but also to fill in blacks and to make the repeating panels at…

  • Not Just Perception

    So, it seems this Art vs. Language/Iconic Bias stuff is on the brain these days… A great deal of research on “art” or looking at drawings has been situated in Perception studies of psychology, and I’ve on occasion bumped heads with various who have taken this track. Perception, as it pertains to visual things, studies…

  • Autumn…

    With the completion of my second visual adaptation of the John Keats poem La Belle Dame Sans Merci, I’m going to start posting a few of my smaller works. I did a couple series of shorts, including this next run of Meditations. This one is called Autumn…, and it was done in the Fall of…

  • More on ComicCon

    So, I’ve found the official Comic-Con programming guide is now posted. Here’s the Friday description for my panel: 1:15-2:30 Comic Arts Conference Session #6: Visual Language—Neil Cohn (Meditations: 1999-2002)  reveals the “secrets” of sequential art: the grammatical rules and visual “parts of speech” underlying comics’ use of sequence. Zon Petilla (Cal State University–Fresno) asserts that…

  • Webcomics writers unite!

    So, I successfully returned from my trip to Boston, having found a place to live, which is good, because then I don’t have to start school living out of a U-Haul. On this trip I was given an amazing welcome tour by Comixpedia’s very own Kelly Cooper. First Alexander Danner, now Kelly… Boston is having…

  • Comic-Con Visual Language Panel

    As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I’ll be speaking on a panel about “Comic Theory” at the Comic Arts Conference at San Diego’s Comic-Con International. The talk is going to be on Friday July 21st at 1:15-2:30 (not sure the room still). Here are descriptions of all the talks on the panel: “The Secret…

  • Iconic Bias, Part 3

    So, last post I talked about how criticism of certain drawing styles stems from the fact that critics might speak a different dialect of visual language. The Art Perspective would have trouble recognizing the idea of graphic dialects because it sees drawing as a siphon for drawing “real life,” which leads to the second reason…

  • La Belle Dame Sans Merci… no Part Tres I swear!

    I’ve posted the concluding installment to my second visual adaptation of the John Keats poem La Belle Dame Sans Merci. Now that it’s done, I’d love to hear people’s thoughts on the comparison between the two. Version One ….. Version Two As those who read my Comixpedia piece on visual rhyming will note, I tried…