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From: Cathy Camper <cathyc_at_multcolib.org>
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 10:06:16 -0700
There's some very exciting research going on regarding how people read comics. Turns out it's just the opposite of comics being 'junk food' - they stimulate the brain by using both words and pictures
Neil Cohn has written about how we read comics the way we read sentences: http://comicsbeat.com/scientist-our-brains-read-comics-as-sentences/
His Visual Language website it pretty fun too! http://www.visuallanguagelab.com/
As a writer, I'm thrilled by kids' visual literacy - take for example, how quickly kids take to manga, and learn how it works - *with little or no formal instruction.* I also love how kids quickly jump in and make visual mediums (comics, manga, online visual sharing etc.) their own.
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 10:06:16 -0700
There's some very exciting research going on regarding how people read comics. Turns out it's just the opposite of comics being 'junk food' - they stimulate the brain by using both words and pictures
Neil Cohn has written about how we read comics the way we read sentences: http://comicsbeat.com/scientist-our-brains-read-comics-as-sentences/
His Visual Language website it pretty fun too! http://www.visuallanguagelab.com/
As a writer, I'm thrilled by kids' visual literacy - take for example, how quickly kids take to manga, and learn how it works - *with little or no formal instruction.* I also love how kids quickly jump in and make visual mediums (comics, manga, online visual sharing etc.) their own.
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