My book has now been out a week and I’m so glad to hear that people are enjoying it so far!

Pick up ”Speaking in pictures” if you have an analytical interest in information graphics, illustration or language. Insightful and accessible, and might get you out of some old preconceptions about what drawing is. 📊 www.visuallanguagelab.com/sip

Highly enjoying the book so far! I think the innateness of drawing is something that some might find surprising, but it really makes sense when thinking about it. Also interesting how it at least as far as current knowledge goes really is unique for humans among all animals alive now.

This is a very interesting question to ask and explore! You (and perhaps your students) might find it interesting to read a bit more our studies in this openaccess journal edited in part by youth. I wonder what their thoughts would be to your question! kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

Can the understanding of these situational models help us to better understand how learning happens when I am explaining a concept in class and they are listening?

We have looked at situation models largely while listening to stories (children were pre-readers) & found links to reading comprehension ability. But I am sure they come into play more widely, as in this new work with comics. I’m now working to pull more of this work together with educators in mind

Having studied situation models in children while listening to stories, I’m very keen to read this! Thanks for sharing

Congratulations and thanks for writing/drawing it! I got it to read with my 14yo daughter — she’s into drawing/animation/graphic novels (she created my user icon) and I’m a linguist/cognitive scientist so it’s up BOTH our alleys! (Added it to StoryGraph, too: app.thestorygraph.com/books/bfff2d...)

Nos lo pone fácil: Speaking in pictures es el Understanding Comics de @neilcohn.bsky.social ! O de cómo el lenguaje del cómic puede ser también el lenguaje de la ciencia.

Speaking in Pictures by @neilcohn.bsky.social arrived here in Helsinki! Went faster than expected. Looking forward to diving into it.

I imported your book to Brazil! :) Still waiting for it to arrive, but very excited! I'll make sure to email you when I get to publish anything citing it

This is the first paper I know of the that has looked at how people comprehend spatial locations while reading comics, particularly compared to verbal narratives. Definitely worth checking out!

Will you be drawing caricatures of the fans in the empty seats? (Many of us are real but virtual)

New book smell!

Anyone who read the last chapter of your book already knew! 😉

Indeed, very important consideration

It’s worth remembering that the ability to write is scaffolded on the innate human capacity to draw, which likely predated any carvings or cave paintings by many millennia

Very interesting attempt to trace back the early evolution of a “system of conventional signs” (proto-writing system) 🧪✍️ www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The title of this new article by >30 deaf and hearing authors says it all "Avoiding unintended consequences: Science of reading policies have potential to harm deaf children" doi.org/10.1093/jdsa...

🙈🙉🙊 are there 3 monkeys here or just one monkey in 3 poses? In our new paper we explore why people interpret this sequence in different ways, and how this taps into a fundamental aspect of interpreting sequential images like those in comics www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Just received the new book @neilcohn.bsky.social. I am looking forward to delve in it, as ChatGPT would say!

My tired noggin is already tickled by your book’s existence

Thank you for the immeasurable time, insight, patience, & brainpower it took to bring us this understanding -waiting by my 📪

HOLY COW!!!! congrats!!!

I highly encourage us cartoonists who practice and learn our craft through production to pursue and read up on the work of comics scholarship. "Comics" is so complex as an art form and subject; and personally so much of how academics study comics gets me hype about how cool it is. xDD

Congrats Neil!! This is going to be a classic in comics studies and craft! Neil's research is on how understanding and reading comics (or sequential imagery) is a cognitive skill and process not unlike learning and reading a language. It's interesting stuff - worth a read for us working cartoonists

Might be interesting next time you’re looking at a graphic novel on the Starship Alexandria podcast? @emmanewman.bsky.social @aptshadow.bsky.social

This one is for comics lovers and language lovers alike! A fun and inspiring read at the forefront of the multimodal language curve. Even works as intro to linguistics course book as it teaches a lot of core linguistic concepts really well, and in a modality-general manner. I can highly recommend!

Amazing! Congratulations! Just ordered it!

More good news!

So fun to finally see my book in the wild!

So powerful in just the first few pages. Happy Book Birthday Neil Cohn!

Happy Book Day! My graphic novel Speaking in Pictures is finally out in the world! I planned this book for over 20 years and spent 7 years writing and drawing it, so I hope everyone enjoys reading it as much as I did creating it 🥳 www.visuallanguagelab.com/sip

My book is out today and my publisher has made it on sale!

Out today and 30% off in our website sale: Speaking in Pictures by Neil Cohn challenges our conventional understandings of how pictures communicate, how people learn to draw and the nature of language itself. Get your copy: Bloomsbury.com/9781350402164 @neilcohn.bsky.social

Congratulations!

I'm also very fascinated in this from an evolutionary perspective - i.e. the extent to which the development of childhood creativity and mark-making is similar/differs to that of our human (and pre-human) ancestors across time.

As someone who is watching this process unfold in my kids, it's very fascinating!

Just cracked it open randomly to the bit about the Territorial Imperative Principle. Conceptual coincidence or named after Ardrey's book (or vice versa)?

Congrats!

Well done dude. Congratulations!

I'm excited to read it!

Happy Book Day! My graphic novel Speaking in Pictures is finally out in the world! I planned this book for over 20 years and spent 7 years writing and drawing it, so I hope everyone enjoys reading it as much as I did creating it 🥳 www.visuallanguagelab.com/sip

I've been really looking forward to it so can't wait to dig in, it looks great. Congrats!

Exciting post day - hundreds of bookmarks to give out at school events AND my copy of @neilcohn.bsky.social's new book which just so happens to be from the same publisher!

Happy Bookday!!

Hey @neilcohn.bsky.social —the comics club is going great, and I just got notice that your book has shipped. Congratulations! I'm excited to read it.

Interested in language, cognition, drawing, comics, and/or visual communication? My publisher @bloomsburyling.bsky.social is having a sale all week, including my new graphic novel, Speaking in Pictures: A Vision of Language, that comes out officially on Thursday! www.bloomsbury.com/us/speaking-...

Interested in language, cognition, drawing, comics, and/or visual communication? My publisher @bloomsburyling.bsky.social is having a sale all week, including my new graphic novel, Speaking in Pictures: A Vision of Language, that comes out officially on Thursday! www.bloomsbury.com/us/speaking-...

Same! Thanks, Past Me! 🤣