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  • The Glass of Water Debate

    Today’s brand spankin’ new update to my Meditations is “The Glass of Water Debate”, a two-page musing on the classic idiom. So, the conclusion to this one will be online Thursday. Technically speaking, this was an experiment in how much I could make with very little — still in the early days of my playing…

  • La Belle Dame Sans Merci, concluded

    I’ve posted today’s conclusion of “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”. Next week I’ll be posting something a bit different, then following that up with a second visual adaptation of “La Belle” with a slightly different interpretation. So… stay tuned.

  • “Graphic book”

    This writer discovers the troubles of labels like “graphic novel” and “illustrated book.” He eventually lands on “graphic book,” and using “graphic” as a general adjective – which is interesting since I proposed much the same a year ago.

  • Future Dr. Cohn

    A few weeks ago I made a trip to Boston with the promise of some more details, so… I am happy to announce that I will starting up grad school as a PhD candidate in Psychology at Tufts University in Boston starting in the Fall. I’m especially excited because my primary advisor will be Ray…

  • Comics, words, video

    Neal (with an a) sends along the start of an interesting new comic… worth checkng out. After asking for a glossary, Kelly now writes on the words of (web)comics And… Steve Barnes has a nice growing collection of political video clips. (Btw: I’ve been having bad wrist pain lately, so my internet presence in the…

  • Save the Internet

    Congress is going to be voting on whether to hand over the Internet to corporations like AT&T: “Net Neutrality allows everyone to compete on a level playing field and is the reason that the Internet is a force for economic innovation, civic participation and free speech. If the public doesn’t speak up now, Congress will…

  • More essays… kinda

    In my noble attempts to categorize my papers more clearly, I’ve broken up the Essays page of my website into a few different parts. So, now the main page is primarily just for downloadable essays, and the Visual Language Manifesto page for articles on the comic industry. Added are a separate page for my now…

  • Wired: Marvel should embrace digital distribution

    This month’s Wired Magazine features an article arguing that Marvel and DC should sell digitized versions of old issues online. While venturing into new material online has yet to show how it would be financially advantageous given their manufacturing model, back issues could provide the ideal stepping stone to digital distribution. Of course, that’s if…

  • Visual Language Glossary

    Over the years I’ve created a lot of terms for all this visual language research. Early on, I did a lot more than I have lately, but I think creating terminology was one of the ways I could be sure I was expressing exactly what I wanted rather than risking rubbing up against an existing…

  • Back from Beantown

    So, I arrived safely (and exhaustedly) back from Boston tonight after an enjoyable and draining trip. Don’t want to jinx anything, so more details coming soon hopefully. However, I did have a great endcap to the trip with a quite spontaneous meet up with Alexander Danner and his wife. They quite graciously showed me around…