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  • The non-universality of cartoony images and comics

    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 […]

  • Review: Unflattening by Nick Sousanis

    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 […]

  • New paper on comic page layouts

    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 […]

  • New paper: Notion of the Motion

    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 […]

  • Igor Kordey’s “Design of comics”

    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 […]

  • Fall projects and complex theory

    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, […]

  • Using the theory of narrative grammar

    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 […]

  • New paper: The grammar of visual narratives

    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 […]

  • New Paper: You’re a good structure, Charlie Brown

    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 […]

  • New paper: Building a better “comic theory”

    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 […]