Mar 6, 2012
A PhD dissertation about comics written in comic form
“Comics offer a return to a time before the rift between image and text grew so wide.”
Nick Sousanis is a doctoral candidate at Columbia University. He is currently writing (and drawing) his dissertation in the form of a comic book. Not surprisingly, the content of his work also focuses on comics.
Here’s the abstract of a paper he presented in preparation for his full dissertation…
Read an interview with Nick Sousanis. Download his introductory paper.
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This guy is fantastic.
absolutely
that is quite magical…
Looks a bit like a powerpoint presentation
Thanks for posting this – and Ben, you’re right – this is not the dissertation, it’s a clip from a talk about the work. Lots more pictures and less text in my real work. Thanks all, Nick