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Here's a fun figure from a paper in progress analyzing the TINTIN Corpus that shows the evolution of telescope POV panels. They go from regular panels with internal cues to just circular panels implying a POV visuallanguagelab.com/tintin

Really excited to finally see our chapter come out on "Iconicity in the visual lexicons of comics"! We describe how iconicity in graphics often involves far more conventionality than is often assumed Book chapter: academic.oup.com/edited-volum... OA preprint: visuallanguagelab.com/P/InPress.OH...

Iconicity in the visual lexicons of comicsAbstractPictures are stereotypically associated with iconicity—they often resemble what they mean. However, this iconicity may make pictures appear as if tacademic.oup.com

🎧 Catch Neil Cohn on Unpacking Peanuts podcast, sharing how he became interested in visual language and how much his research owes to Charles M. Schulz's comic strip: pod.link/unpackingpeanuts Neil's latest book is Speaking in Pictures: Bloomsbury.com/speaking-in-pictures-9781350402164/

Unpacking PeanutsListen to Unpacking Peanuts wherever you get your podcasts!pod.link

A bar sign in Japan

Finally a toilet for people who just want a quiet place to pet their duck.

Cool - thanks! I’ve got a bunch of your articles cued up for my fall comics in education - and I’ll add this as well! bsky.app/profile/nsou...

Me too - took it for a spin right after it arrived while eating lunch - lots to dig into & I know draw on for classes with just a quick look. And yes, good company to be associated with - appreciated. (And yeah, my colleague picked it up for me when it came out, but then never handed over, so…)

And related, @neilcohn.bsky.social @scottmccloud.bsky.social @reimenayee.com & I all talked on such things a while back - recorded here! www.youtube.com/live/gymwh40...

The Study of Comics in Academia (Understanding Comics)YouTube video by Cartoonists Unitedwww.youtube.com

New (overdue) arrival! @neilcohn.bsky.social’s Speaking in Pictures is an inviting journey on visual literacy, linguistics, & of course on & in comics! Brings together a lot of Neil’s work in easily accessible form, & covers lots of ground! (& look whose work makes a cameo…) Will deploy in classes!

I'm on the latest episode of @unpackingpeanuts.bsky.social chatting about comics, the role Peanuts has played in what we know about how brains understand comics, and my new graphic novel Speaking in Pictures. It was a very fun conversation so check it out! pod.link/unpackingpea...

Unpacking PeanutsListen to Unpacking Peanuts wherever you get your podcasts!pod.link

An intriguing conversation! Tho I was almost forced to bail when @neilcohn.bsky.social kept referring to Charlie Brown as Charlie, but I stuck with it. And don’t even know who “Charlie” is!

Along with colleagues in Paris and Geneva, we share grave concern after cartoonists were named in a list of targets made by far-right extremists in Portugal. @cartooningforpeace.bsky.social @freedomcartoonists.bsky.social www.cartooningforpeace.org/en/soutiens/...

You were a great guest. I particularly liked your remarks about AI.

We talk with Eisner-nominated cognitive scientist @neilcohn.bsky.social who looks at how our brains perceive comics. His latest book challenges the conventional understandings of how pictures communicate, how people learn to draw, and the nature of language itself. #comics #cartooning #comicstrips

Loved this call out in "The Origins and Evolution of Writing". It says "established linguistic frameworks don't predict graphics and writing system development"... Footnote: "Did we say none? Actually, Cohn and Schilperoord's (2024) multimodal model works!" www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

​New article!: The Origins and Evolution of Writing www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... 🧵1/

The Origins and Evolution of WritingFor centuries, scholars have debated the etiology and evolution of writing. The most persistent concerns relate to the relationship between writing and social organization, linguistic structure, and c...www.annualreviews.org

#FollowFriday Not At San Diego Comic-Con Edition Comic Book Creators, if you're not at SDCC, add yourself below and make sure to tell people about your books! Everyone else, go follow them and check out their work! #ArtistAlley

Why does drawing six squiggly lines explain your convoluted project idea better than words ever could? ✍️ @neilcohn.bsky.social (www.visuallanguagelab.com) discusses meaning-making with graphics.

En route to #cogsci2026! 🇧🇷 🇧🇷 Hope to see you at the Unconventional Communication workshop on Weds morning where I'll be giving a talk on the meanings of sounds Details at unconventional-communication.github.io

I knew when I saw this announcement "that book is for me" and I was totally right. recommended really for anyone