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  • Mayan Visual Language?

    I haven’t done a review for a while, so here’s an absolutely fascinating one (again, listed in my bibliography): Nielsen, Jesper, and Wichmann, Søren. 2000. America’s First Comics? Techniques, Contents, […]

  • Art (frame-of-mind) History

    As I’ve discussed before, I think that our culture has a perspective on drawing that is oriented to an “Art frame-of-mind,” which is opposition to a “Language frame-of-mind.” While Language […]

  • We the People, third times the charm?

    Hey, I just found out We the People: A Call to Take Back America has now entered its third printing in about two years. Not bad I’d say. Unfortunately, the […]

  • Six degrees of Wikipedia

    As many people are now discovering, there’s a fun new tool called “Six Degrees of Wikipedia” which does just what one thinks: finds the connections between entries. Alas though, stumped […]

  • The Antecedent

    I’m always one to plug good works, especially political ones, so here’s the “press release” for a new monthly strip at Comixpedia: Bryant Paul Johnson is a very talented artist […]

  • Buddhism and Brains

    This month’s Wired Magazine has an interesting article about Buddhist meditation and neuroscience. While I haven’t read the actual paper, I can’t say I’m particularly surprised that the study showed […]

  • Sequart

    I recently found Sequart.com site that professes to be “for the sophisticated study of comic books and graphic novels.” The term “sequart” is meant as: Sequart (n.) — seh-kwart — […]

  • びくらこいた!

    Happy February! The mystery of the thumping dumpster is revealed in the latest installment of “Karuna”. It may have seemed trivial afterward, but that experience did scare the bejeezus out […]

  • The Character of “Comics”

    Recently, one of the elementary school kids that I teach found out that I “drew comics” after she mentioned that she wanted to be an artist. What intrigued me (besides […]

  • The God That Wasn’t There

    I recently watched this documentary that questions whether Jesus actually existed and explores the gaps in the historical record to this effect. It had some interesting points, but could have […]