This work presents a provocative theory that drawings and sequential images are structured the same as language building on contemporary theories from linguistics and cognitive psychology it argues that comics are written in a visual language of sequential images that combines with text like spoken and signed languages visual narratives use a lexicon of systematic patterns stored in memory strategies for combining these patterns into meaningful units and a hierarchic grammar governing . The visual language research corpus vlrc is a database of coded comics and potentially other visual media used to investigate the structures in visual languages of the world. The visual language of comics introduction to the structure and cognition of sequential images neil cohn drawings and sequential images are an integral part of human expression dating back at least as far as cave paintings and in contemporary society appear most prominently in comics. The visual language of comics introduction to the structure and cognition of sequential images bloomsbury advances in semiotics kindle edition by cohn neil download it once and read it on your kindle device pc phones or tablets use features like bookmarks note taking and highlighting while reading the visual language of comics introduction to the structure and cognition of sequential images bloomsbury advances in semiotics. Start by marking the visual language of comics introduction to the structure and cognition of sequential images as want to read not just a focus on comics still comics does stand prominently in its title this is part of bloomsburys advances in semiotics series and the text adopts a clear linguistics approach