Mike Borkent is an independent researcher and former lecturer at the University of British Columbia. He co-edited Language and the Creative Mind and has published a range of articles and chapters on comics, visual poetry, and Canadian and Indigenous literatures from a cognitive poetic perspective.

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresList of Tables Chapter 1 - Introduction Chapter 2 - How to Talk About Comics and Not Fear Them: Literacies, Fallacies, and Modalities Chapter 3 - Multimodality and Cognition: Perception, Knowledge Networks, and the Construction of Meaning Chapter 4 - Paneling Construal and Viewpoint: Abstractions, Bodies, and Synaesthetic Forms Chapter 5 - Expanded Viewpoint Networks: Metonymies, Metaphors, and Other Blends Chapter 6 - Temporalities: Metaphors, Modalities, and Arrangements Chapter 7 - Spatial Conceptualizations: Layout as Viewpoint and Narrative Strategy in The Underwater Welder Chapter 8 - Abstraction and Experimentation in Comics: Improvisation and Meaning Chapter 9 - Conclusions and Extensions: Expanding Multimodal Cognitive Poetics through Digital Comics References

Mike Borkent is an independent researcher and former lecturer at the University of British Columbia. He co-edited Language and the Creative Mind and has published a range of articles and chapters on comics, visual poetry, and Canadian and Indigenous literatures from a cognitive poetic perspective.

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresList of Tables Chapter 1 - Introduction Chapter 2 - How to Talk About Comics and Not Fear Them: Literacies, Fallacies, and Modalities Chapter 3 - Multimodality and Cognition: Perception, Knowledge Networks, and the Construction of Meaning Chapter 4 - Paneling Construal and Viewpoint: Abstractions, Bodies, and Synaesthetic Forms Chapter 5 - Expanded Viewpoint Networks: Metonymies, Metaphors, and Other Blends Chapter 6 - Temporalities: Metaphors, Modalities, and Arrangements Chapter 7 - Spatial Conceptualizations: Layout as Viewpoint and Narrative Strategy in The Underwater Welder Chapter 8 - Abstraction and Experimentation in Comics: Improvisation and Meaning Chapter 9 - Conclusions and Extensions: Expanding Multimodal Cognitive Poetics through Digital Comics References

Mike Borkent is an independent researcher and former lecturer at the University of British Columbia. He co-edited Language and the Creative Mind and has published a range of articles and chapters on comics, visual poetry, and Canadian and Indigenous literatures from a cognitive poetic perspective.

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresList of Tables Chapter 1 - Introduction Chapter 2 - How to Talk About Comics and Not Fear Them: Literacies, Fallacies, and Modalities Chapter 3 - Multimodality and Cognition: Perception, Knowledge Networks, and the Construction of Meaning Chapter 4 - Paneling Construal and Viewpoint: Abstractions, Bodies, and Synaesthetic Forms Chapter 5 - Expanded Viewpoint Networks: Metonymies, Metaphors, and Other Blends Chapter 6 - Temporalities: Metaphors, Modalities, and Arrangements Chapter 7 - Spatial Conceptualizations: Layout as Viewpoint and Narrative Strategy in The Underwater Welder Chapter 8 - Abstraction and Experimentation in Comics: Improvisation and Meaning Chapter 9 - Conclusions and Extensions: Expanding Multimodal Cognitive Poetics through Digital Comics References