BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook 11.0 MIMEDIR//EN VERSION:1.0 BEGIN: VEVENT DTSTART:20060721T131500TZ:-06 DTEND:20060721T143000TZ:-06 LOCATION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Room 7B UID:20060721-131500-00000000000-0155 DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Neil Cohn (Meditations: 1999-2002) reveals the “secrets” of sequential art: the grammatical rules and visual “parts of speech” underlying comics' use of sequence. Zon Petilla (Cal State University–Fresno) asserts that there is a universal visual grammar operating in comics that can be used to teach language. Hal Shipman (Northwestern University) examines the contrast between the vocabulary and grammar of visual language in European and American comics, represented respectively by the adventure strips Tintin and Terry and the Pirates. SUMMARY;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Comic Arts Conference Session #6: Visual Language PRIORITY:3 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR