Comics are a global phenomenon, and yet it’s easy to distinguish the visual styles of comics from Asia, Europe, or the United States. But, do the structures of these visual narratives differ in more subtle ways? Might these comics actually be drawn in different visual languages that vary in their structures across cultures?

Meditations: 1998-2002

Before delving into visual language theory, Neil Cohn spent several years experimenting artistically with sequential art. These diverse and often formalistic visual poems, short stories, and vignettes tread a journey of artistic exploration into philosophy, religion, love, childhood, and the artistic boundaries of this visual language.

We the People: A Call to Take Back America

By Thom Hartmann & Neil Cohn

This 216 page non-fiction comic shows the dangers that corporations pose to American democracy. Americans have become second-class citizens to the “personhood” of transnational corporations, who have usurped control from We the People.

A User’s Guide to Thought and Meaning

By Ray Jackendoff (Author) with Neil Cohn (Illustrator)

This book presents a radical new account of the relation between language, meaning, rationality, perception, consciousness, and thought, and, extraordinarily, does this in terms a non-specialist will grasp with ease…

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The Graphic Canon, v2

By Russ Kick (Editor)

The Graphic Canon Volume 2 gives us a visual cornucopia based on the wealth of literature from the 1800s. Neil Cohn’s contribution offers an interpretation of John Keats’ haunting poem, “La Belle Dame Sans Merci.”

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