Comic Theory 101: In Place of Another
This article was originally written for my periodic column at the online magazine Comixtalk in October 2005. One of the most famous theories that Scott McCloud set forth in Understanding Comics was that […]
New paper: Being explicit about the implicit
My cascade of recent new papers continues with my latest paper, “Being explicit about the implicit: inference generating techniques in visual narrative“, which has recently been published open access in […]
New paper: Combinatorial morphology in visual languages
I’m very pleased to announce that my newest paper, “Combinatorial morphology in visual languages” has now been published in a book collection edited by Geert Booij, The Construction of Words: […]
New paper: Getting a cue before getting a clue
It seems the last few months on this blog have been all about inference generation… I’m happy to say this post is also the case! I’m excited to announce that […]
Inference generating comic panels
Since my last post discussed my new paper on action stars, I thought it would be worth doing a refresher on these types of panels in the visual language of […]
New paper: Action starring narrative and events
Waaaay back in 2008 I first posted about a phenomenon in comics that I called an “action star”, such as the third panel in this sequence: I argued that these […]
Science and Eddie Campbell’s rules of comics comprehension
In Eddie Campbell’s recent article at The Comics Journal, he described several potential “rhetorical rules” that authors of comics can follow in order to make them more understandable to inexperienced […]