Michael Rosen has taken his radio show Word Of Mouth to look at the power of the language of comics, with comics theorist and cognitive researcher Neil Cohn, author of The Visual Language of Comics.

Here’s a tradition that has persisted for generations: Kids huddle outside the doors of their local comic book shops—clutching their weekly allowance, babysitting money, loose change scavenged from ...

Once upon a time, games publisher Rebellion bought 2000AD and the Judge Dredd Megazine. Because the owners really wanted to own their favourite comic book. It was expected that they would create a ...

There have been whole books written about the visual language of comics. A curlicue above someone’s head means he’s dizzy. Straight lines shooting out of an object means it’s moving fast. A series of ...

Whether U.S. comic strips are a menace to children is an old and vexing question to conscientious parents. This week came a partial answer. George E. Hill, professor of Education, Morningside College, ...