One of my creative goals in life is to never let that one goon from Action Comics #1 get a break...

Reposting my single issue comic book thumbnail template for whoever might need it. 20 interior pages plus a cover, fits onto a single 8.5 x 11 inch sheet. Just print it out and draw on it or drop it into your fave software. Go make comics!

A free, open-access library of high-quality organism illustrations for science communication

I am interested in working with an artist on a graphic novel on soil and/ or global environmental change. The lab would have money to fund this. Do you know of any graphic artists that would be interested?

Congrats! Looks great!!

Wow! My author copies arrived early for my new book from @bloomsburyling.bsky.social, Speaking in Pictures, about language, cognition, comics, and visual communication. It looks beautiful, and after working on it for 7 years I’m so glad it’s out in the world soon! www.visuallanguagelab.com/sip

Oh great stuff! Will it be coming to the UK soon?

Amazing!! 🤩

Huzzah! Looking forward to reading it!

Wow! My author copies arrived early for my new book from @bloomsburyling.bsky.social, Speaking in Pictures, about language, cognition, comics, and visual communication. It looks beautiful, and after working on it for 7 years I’m so glad it’s out in the world soon! www.visuallanguagelab.com/sip

Pre-ordered it. 👍

I can't wait to get my hands on it!

So exciting... just found out my author copies of Speaking with Pictures are arriving next week. After working on this graphic novel for 7 years I can't wait to see what it's like fully printed 📖👀 www.visuallanguagelab.com/sip

This is far superior to growlix

Comic creators often talk about "flow" through the composition of comics pages, but little work has actually studied it. So, our newest paper explores what flow is and how it works, which I’ve summarized in a more accessible way in this post: www.visuallanguagelab.com/2025/12/goin...

Comic creators often talk about "flow" through the composition of comics pages, but little work has actually studied it. So, our newest paper explores what flow is and how it works, which I’ve summarized in a more accessible way in this post: www.visuallanguagelab.com/2025/12/goin...

Mark your calendars 📅: SCSMI 2026 in Amsterdam 🇳🇱 next June! We can’t wait to welcome you—just don’t forget to send in your abstracts before the deadline 🖊️✨ 🎬🧠 🎬🧠 🎬🧠 🎬🧠 🎬🧠

Last days to submit to SCSMI 2026 in AMSTERDAM!

Incredible archaeology and Indigenous art from Huichol territories, showing that the Pecos murals were painted continuously over 4,000 years. "The canyons are like an “ancient library containing hundreds of books authored by 175 generations of painters". www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/r... 🏺 🗃️

I said it before, will say it again -- generative AI fetishizes "ideas" while sneering at effort, execution, and education. That, despite Gen-AI being built on and out of other people's effort, execution and education.

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Rabbit locomotion — Brehms Tierleben, 1914

This is an academic book with a novel approach, so no, not yet. My next book out in February is a graphic novel with at least some overlapping ideas aimed at a wider audience though visuallanguagelab.com/sip

The paperback version of my book A Multimodal Language Faculty is now out! It's been described as a "true paradigm shift" for the language sciences, presenting a multimodal paradigm and model of language and communication www.visuallanguagelab.com/mlf

I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points

The paperback version of my book A Multimodal Language Faculty is now out! It's been described as a "true paradigm shift" for the language sciences, presenting a multimodal paradigm and model of language and communication www.visuallanguagelab.com/mlf

Yeah - combine the popups with the scroll - descend immediately into madness! :)

Reminds me of The Rocket Book, where there's a physical hole in the book, linking all the illustrations together in a continuous time / space linkage. www.themarginalian.org/2016/08/08/t...

Honor-bound to mention that space=time is a needlessly reductive shorthand when applied to how comics “work”, but it doesn’t hurt to think about it every once in a while. 😁

😂 I can see it. Been thinking lately about how the old space=time adage might apply to 3 dimensions. More about pottery and the external dimensions there (cyclical shorts, etc…) but this format could be like the accordion/concertina books but in a “one-panel” comic instead of a strip.

Though given my other work - it’s really not much of a stretch! bsky.app/profile/nsou...

Ha - yes, that’s asking for trouble! Thanks for sending my way!

That is gorgeous!!! 😍 Neat that the pages fold into a box too!

This is super fun. I feel like this gimmick will be the next comic by @nsousanis.bsky.social or @tymgodek.bsky.social

If you're wondering ‘What do you mean it reads back to front as well as front to back?’ Well, I'll try to quickly explain what “THE SPECTACULAR SPACE LOOP” is ⬇️

It's my book's release day! The Patterns of Comics is now officially published, featuring an extended data-driven analysis of the structures used in 350+ comics from Asia, Europe, and North America analyzing diversity, regularity, and change over time www.visuallanguagelab.com/poc

Really nice to see this reappraisal of "design features for language". Our book "A Multimodal Language Faculty" also discusses design features, and I believe presents the only model of language that satisfies the type of linguistic framework that they advocate www.bloomsbury.com/us/multimoda...

Really nice to see this reappraisal of "design features for language". Our book "A Multimodal Language Faculty" also discusses design features, and I believe presents the only model of language that satisfies the type of linguistic framework that they advocate www.bloomsbury.com/us/multimoda...

It costs so little money to buy one book. And if you can’t afford the book, ask your library to get it.

Happy World Linguistics Day! It's just in time for the paperback release (currently on sale!) of our book A Multimodal Language Faculty which proposes a new multimodal paradigm to directly ask: "What is Language?" www.bloomsbury.com/us/multimoda...

Here's yet another paper using eye tracking on comics, here recording lots of participants while reading a page from Watchmen. I've seen more eye tracking studies of comics this year than almost the last 5 to 10 years combined, so hopefully this trend continues www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New paper from the lab, "Perceiving Event Structure in Brief Actions," now out in Cognitive Psychology :) Led by the inimitable Zekun Sun This was my lab's first foray into event cognition gift link: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

My publisher @bloomsburyling.bsky.social is having their winter sale with up to 30% off on all my titles, including 10% off preorders of... my now-in-paperback Multimodal Language Faculty! www.bloomsbury.com/us/multimoda... my graphic novel Speaking in Pictures! www.bloomsbury.com/us/speaking-...

Here's an interesting new study on comics that uses eye tracking to ask how much people use their peripheral vision while reading comics using a technique from reading studies with a "perceptual window" that revealed panels when people moved their eyes to them onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Going to be so useful!

I am intrigued. Have you told the story of the Fight Cloud somewhere? (Other correspondents: Please do not post your joke about the First Rule Of Fight Cloud in this thread.) At a glance, I thought "we already have explosions," but now I see the spirit of Beetle Bailey & Sgt Snorkel in your emoji.

Not sure how I missed this, but the next round of emoji includes the fight cloud which I proposed with @jenniferdaniel.bsky.social! So excited to see it will be joining keyboards soon!

Happy Unicode 17.0 Day! Includes seven new emoji that are rolling out on your phones and computers in the coming year: treasure chest, trombone, avalanche, big foot, bulging face, fight cloud, orca @jenniferdaniel.bsky.social has the lowdown: jenniferdaniel.substack.com/p/tomorrows-...

I don't think this science communication resource gets enough love. OpenMoji offers 4,000+ free, #opensource emojis (CC BY-SA 4.0), with categories for healthcare, climate, UI... Challenge: find Greta Thunberg and a Viennese coffee house. ☕ 🔗 openmoji.org #SciComm #Design

My publisher @bloomsburyling.bsky.social is having their winter sale with up to 30% off on all my titles, including 10% off preorders of... my now-in-paperback Multimodal Language Faculty! www.bloomsbury.com/us/multimoda... my graphic novel Speaking in Pictures! www.bloomsbury.com/us/speaking-...