![]() ![]() We create sounds using our mouths we can move our bodies with hands and faces and we can draw things My idea is that whenever these meaning-making channels get structured in a coherent sequence, then you end up with a type of language. His theory, presented in The Visual Language of Comics (Bloomsbury) next month, is provocative.Īt a neural level, he says, the pictures of comic strips are processed as another form of language, with their own vocabulary, grammar and syntax. Now a psychologist at the University of California, San Diego, Neil Cohn is finally getting the chance to answer that question, as he carefully dismantles comic strips such as Peanuts. It was not long before he became a compulsive comic artist himself in his teens he even started his own mail-order comic company.Īs he set about his creations, he would often wonder how the brain makes the huge cognitive leap to piece together a story from the fragmentary, stylised pictures on his drawing board. ![]() ![]() To Cohns four-year-old self, it was as if theyd been imported from a strange and foreign place. In one of his earliest memories, he recalls his dad climbing the stairs and pulling down a box of 1960s Batman and Superman books that he had stashed away from his own childhood.
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