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  • Digital Creation

    As evidenced by my work in A Love Story and the Meditations series (like the now updated “Karuna” story), I have embraced digital tools with open arms. Though, I have […]

  • Kinder Reflections on Understanding Comics

    So, in my “Problems with Closure” posts (parts 1, 2, 3, 4), I was in my “bloodthirsty academic” mode. I aught to add that Understanding Comics should be commended for […]

  • Problems with Closure, part 4

    In my last post, I pointed out the assumption that pictures are not connected to any mental apparatus. I now continue on to show how that affects analysis of sequential […]

  • Another cycle

    My birthday gift to all of you is another page of “Karuna”.

  • Problems with Closure, part 3

    In my last post I pointed out that pictures are not believed to have constraints on them, and that the mind must place constraints on any sort of understanding: Assumption […]

  • Problems with Closure, part 2

    The first problem with closure isn’t a direct one, but a tendency of the way our culture treats graphic images as a whole. As a topic, it also happens to […]

  • Passing Judgment

    I’ve got new article up at Comixpedia discussing how intuitive judgments can lend towards developing a theories on the structure of visual language. I’m trying a new approach with this […]

  • Addendum on Intentionality

    After that long post, I should note that there is nothing inherently wrong with an “interpretive” analysis for its own sake. I have no problems with artistic readings of things […]

  • Problems with Closure, part 1

    I’ve been reading Mike Meginnis’ blog lately, which has stirred up some observations I have about the issues of closure. As astute readers of my work know, I don’t buy […]

  • Karuna

    Starting today I’ve got a new story running on my Webcomics nation site, called “Karuna”. This is actually a true story, about something that happened to me while I was […]