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If my thesis had been in any other subject than Creative Communication, I think I would have been plumb out of luck getting a comic through the system. So I was very lucky in that regard. Also, my convenor is an incredibly open-minded person who was actively encouraging us to think as far outside th...

I'm very excited today! My dissertation has just been published! :D http://www.textjournal.com.au/index.htm (Follow link: SW Smith Academaesthetics ) Or just go straight to it: http://www.textjournal.com.au/oct07/smith.htm Or actually straight to it: http://www.textjournal.com.au/oct07/academaesthet...

Phew, it's been a while, but I finally knocked the project over. Ended up being a 53 page effort. I've submitted it for publication at a reviewed academic (online) journal, so for now, I'm going to refrain from posting the whole thing here, because I don't think it would go down too well. :) Stay tu...

Thanks for your comments, Neil! In the "Visual Literacy" section of the comics part of the project, I was going to go into the "visual language" component, as distinct from comics, in much greater detail. As the clock is ticking on this dissertation, I decided that I only had time to mention everyth...

Sorry I haven't posted an update in a while. This may (not) come as a tremendous shock, but I've changed my direction a bit (read: a lot) since my last post. Things are basically finalised now, so all I have to do is make the thing. TITLE: ACADEMAESTHETICS Here is my official 100 word research quest...

Hi Jason, Thanks for all the links! I've been in contact with Neil by email, and I've managed to track down pretty much all of his work (I think) :) In the last month, I've read all Scott McCloud's stuff, most of Neil's, and I've been reading a bit on the history of comics (as in periodical publicat...

Hi everybody! First time poster ... er, first time listener too. Boy, is it hard to find research into the comic/graphic novel. Until I discovered Scott McCloud's website, which had some great links (which in turn had more links), I was coming up very dry ... so, it came as no small relief when I fo...