Comic Boom - Episode 8 - exploring the visual language of comics with Neil Cohn

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In this episode I am joined by Neil Cohn, Neil Cohn is an American cognitive scientist best known for his pioneering research on the overlap in cognition between graphic communication and language. He is the author of 2 graphic novels, over 80 academic papers, and 3 academic books, including The Visual Language of Comics (2013) and the 2021 Eisner-nominated Who Understands Comics? (2020). He is an Associate Professor at the Department of Cognition and Communication at Tilburg University in The Netherlands.

Neil's website:www.visuallanguagelab.com

Links to everything  discussed and the comic for the episode can be found on the podcast padlet.

Follow Neil on Twitter at  @visual_linguist
Host: @Lucy_Braidley
Contact: [email protected]

Music by John_Sib from Pixabay