Nominees for this year’s Will Eisner Comics Industry Awards were determined by a 6-member panel of judges, among them A. David Lewis of MCPHS University in Boston, Massachusetts.

“In comics, there’s a sequence of panels next to each other that convey narrative, and also words and images inside each panel, and that hybridity always appealed to me. There have been studies on what they do with our brains—triggering different hemispheres of the brain. They have their own grammar and visual language. I find that both fascinating and full of potential,” he said.

A. David Lewis, 2023

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https://www.mcphs.edu/en/about/news/mcphs-professor-is-judge-for-the-oscars-of-comics