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  • August craziness from the east side of the Atlantic

    Busy times lately: This marks my first blog post on the east side of the Atlantic! I’ve now been living in the Netherlands for the better part of August, and […]

  • Moves, Comic-Con, and one crazy summer!

    Summer has been a wild one so far, and only getting crazier. In addition to several conferences in the US, I’m now preparing to move to The Netherlands for my […]

  • New paper: Reading without words

    One of the most frequent questions that people ask about reading comics is “what are people’s eyes doing when comprehending comics?” More and more, I see people planning eye-tracking experiments […]

  • Dispelling myths of comics understanding

    Dispelling myths of comics understanding

    In reading through various works about comics understanding, I keep hearing several statements repeated over and over. But, several of these statements are not reflective of the way people actually […]

  • Mayan visual narratives in the BBC!

    I’m very happy to say that David Robson over at the BBC has a new article out discussing Jesper Nielsen and Søren Wichmann’s chapter in my new book, The Visual […]

  • New Paper: The pieces fit

    Magical things happen at conferences sometimes. Back at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society conference in 2014, I ran into my graduate school friend, Carl Hagmann, who mentioned he was doing interesting […]

  • New Book: The Visual Narrative Reader

    I’m very excited to announce that today is the release date for my new book, The Visual Narrative Reader! What makes this one so fun is that I didn’t write […]

  • New paper: The vocabulary of manga

    New paper: The vocabulary of manga

    I’m happy to announce that my new article with co-author Sean Ehly, “The vocabulary of manga: Visual morphology in dialects of Japanese Visual Language” is now published in the Journal […]

  • New Paper: A multimodal parallel architecture

    I’m excited to share that I now have a new article in the latest issue of Cognition: “A multimodal parallel architecture: A cognitive framework for multimodal interactions.” This paper presents […]

  • How to analyze comics with narrative grammar

    Over the past several years, I’ve presented a lot of evidence that panel-to-panel “transitions” cannot account for how we understand sequences of images in visual narratives like comics. Rather, I’ve […]