Michael Cop
Biographic Data
| ID | 5187658 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Cop |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Cop |
| SIGNATURE | COP M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Otago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Blockage-Path Reading in Comics: Patterns in Blockage Layouts from Ten Popular Comics
Conventional wisdom suggests that we read comics in the West in a Z-path pattern, the pattern that we use for standard written text: left to right and downwards. In The Visual Language of Comics, Neil Cohn recognised that there are layouts that encourage readers to deviate from normative Z-path reading, with blockage layouts leading the way; blockage is where ‘several panels are stacked vertically next to a panel that runs the whole distance of t…
Judging a Type of Character: The Anointing Women, Mindfulness, and Beginner’s Mind
This article will argue for mindful awareness and curiosity as correctives to the mindless judgements that sometimes arise from interpreting events that are similar as though they are identical. To make a case for mindfulness as an antidote to judgement, the essay will examine four literary texts that all describe a similar event, an event that triggers judgements within the characters involved in the story world. It will then step back from what…
‘Words, Words, Words’: Making Comics and Sense of the Three Texts of Hamlet
In teaching our first-year university students to understand what Shakespearean language is and what it does, we asked them to edit the three different early modern editions of Hamlet and then adapt their edits into a comics spread. Using some of the numerous graphic novel adaptations of Shakespeare and a platform that we forked from Willian Carvalho’s 2012 project ‘comicgen’, our first-year university students create their own visual representat…
An athletes [sic] performance: Can a possessive apostrophe predict success
If we believe social media, newspapers, and even some of our best friends and colleagues, the war over standard usage is on. As with many wars, the opposing sides seem to be entrenched in differing ideological positions and many of the battles seem to take place over the most unstable, smallest bits of territory - such as the Oxford comma, singular they , or split infinitives. In this ongoing war, possessive apostrophes have attracted particularl…
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An athletes [sic] performance: Can a possessive apostrophe predict success
If we believe social media, newspapers, and even some of our best friends and colleagues, the war over standard usage is on. As with many wars, the opposing sides seem to be entrenched in differing ideological positions and many of the battles seem to take place over the most unstable, smallest bits of territory - such as the Oxford comma, singular they , or split infinitives. In this ongoing war, possessive apostrophes have attracted particularl…
‘Words, Words, Words’: Making Comics and Sense of the Three Texts of Hamlet
In teaching our first-year university students to understand what Shakespearean language is and what it does, we asked them to edit the three different early modern editions of Hamlet and then adapt their edits into a comics spread. Using some of the numerous graphic novel adaptations of Shakespeare and a platform that we forked from Willian Carvalho’s 2012 project ‘comicgen’, our first-year university students create their own visual representat…
Blockage-Path Reading in Comics: Patterns in Blockage Layouts from Ten Popular Comics
Conventional wisdom suggests that we read comics in the West in a Z-path pattern, the pattern that we use for standard written text: left to right and downwards. In The Visual Language of Comics, Neil Cohn recognised that there are layouts that encourage readers to deviate from normative Z-path reading, with blockage layouts leading the way; blockage is where ‘several panels are stacked vertically next to a panel that runs the whole distance of t…
Judging a Type of Character: The Anointing Women, Mindfulness, and Beginner’s Mind
This article will argue for mindful awareness and curiosity as correctives to the mindless judgements that sometimes arise from interpreting events that are similar as though they are identical. To make a case for mindfulness as an antidote to judgement, the essay will examine four literary texts that all describe a similar event, an event that triggers judgements within the characters involved in the story world. It will then step back from what…
Comics (2 works) · Comics and Graphic Narratives (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Advertising (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Classics (1 works) · Close reading (1 works) · Crime and Detective Fiction Studies (1 works) · Curiosity (1 works) · Digital Communication and Language (1 works)