There are many who assume that cartoony images and the ability to understand sequential images is universal. The 1978 study “Communicating with Pictures in Nepal” by Fussell and Haaland reports […]
Nick Sousanis’ recent book Unflattening has been receiving praise for its freeing message and artistic execution. The book was Sousanis’ doctoral dissertation, and in being a graphic work, it thus […]
I’m excited to announce that my paper, “Navigating Comics II” on people’s preferences for moving from panel-to-panel in comic page layouts is now published in the latest issue of Applied […]
I’m excited to say that my paper, “The notion of the motion: The neurocognition of motion lines in visual narratives” with Steve Maher is now published in the latest issue […]
This morning I found this very fun post by Designboom about a talk given by the Croatian comic art Igor Kordey about his page design and storytelling. The post and […]
Alas, these last few months have flown by with little time to post. After recuperating from my flurry of summer/fall travel, I’ve been diligently working on a few new projects, […]
As people have now started reading my book and papers, they’ve naturally started to try to apply my theories of “narrative grammar” to sequential images found in comics. My “narrative […]
I’m very excited to announce that I have a new paper out in the latest issue of Neuropsychologia on how the brain understands sequences of images, “The grammar of visual […]
Wow, big week for new papers! I’ve got another one officially out now in the latest issue of Cognitive Science, “You’re a Good Structure, Charlie Brown: The Distribution of Narrative […]
I’m happy to say that I have a new paper (pdf), “Building a better “comic theory,” in the latest issue of the journal Studies in Comics. In this one I critique […]