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Thinking in Comics with Nick Sousanis - Sketch Your Mind Conference, 2025

📝 Session summary https://sketch-your-mind.com/2025/ses... 🖼️ Explore the "Map of Your Day" Gallery https://link.excalidraw.com/readonly/... 🗺️ Map of the Conference https://link.excalidraw.com/readonly/... 🎶 Get the Conference Music https://ko-fi.com/s/5be1399596 ----- 📕 Read Sketch Your Mind https://sketch-your-mind.com/ ✏️ Sign up for the Visual Thinking Workshop: https://www.visual-thinking-workshop.... 📨 Join the Newsletter https://sketch-your-mind.com/newsletter 👨‍💻 Excalidraw-Obsidian https://github.com/zsviczian/obsidian... If you find my videos helpful, please say thanks by buying me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/zsolt 📩 If you want to connect, you can reach me: (@zsviczian) on the Obsidian Members Group (OMG) on Discord, or on 🐦 Twitter:   / zsviczian   ----- Description: In this mind-expanding session, comics author and educator Nick Sousanis takes us on a journey to escape "flatness"—the restrictive, one-dimensional perspectives that can limit our thinking. Drawing from his groundbreaking doctoral dissertation-as-comic, "Unflattening," Nick explores how visual forms, particularly comics, can unlock new ways of seeing and understanding the world. He demonstrates how the unique structure of comics—the interplay between the sequential and the simultaneous, words and images, time and space—mirrors the non-linear way our minds connect ideas. Through a host of fascinating examples from his own work, his students, and comics history, Nick makes a powerful case for drawing not just as a tool for illustration, but as a vital cognitive process for discovery and generating new thought. Join Nick for a deep dive into the affordances of the comics medium, a look at his creative process, and a hands-on drawing exercise designed to challenge your own perceptual habits. ---- Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction Part 1: The Concept of Unflattening 02:56 - Start of Nick's Session: Introduction to "Unflattening" 03:16 - The Nightmare of Flatness: Limiting Possibilities 04:12 - Critiquing Education as a Form of Flatness 05:09 - A Dog's Sense of Smell: On Different Ways of Knowing 06:25 - The Goal: Cultivating Good Seers to Create Good Thinkers Part 2: Nick's Journey & Teaching Comics 06:47 - Personal History: From Childhood Comic Maker to Academia 08:18 - Running a Comics Program at SF State University 09:16 - The Philosophy of the Program: Study and Play 09:39 - Examples of Student Work 10:12 - "How you think is more important than how you draw" 10:27 - Comics as "Poetry + Graphic Design" Part 3: The Affordances of Comics 12:24 - What Are Comics?: A Brief History 13:50 - How Comics Work: Scott McCloud's Definition 14:28 - How Comics Represent Time and Space 15:49 - The Page as a Whole: Sequential and Simultaneous Reading 16:27 - Example: Time Perception in Alan Moore's "Watchmen" 17:36 - The Page as a Meta-Drawing and Choreography 18:34 - Example: Navigating Page Space Part 4: Process, New Work & Drawing Exercise 19:02 - The Artist's Process: Finding Ideas Through Drawing 19:56 - Using Metaphor and Visual Constraints 21:50 - Formal Decision: Embodying Ideas in the Shape of the Page 24:25 - Drawing as a Generative Act of Thinking 25:17 - Do Words or Pictures Come First? "Yes." 25:35 - The Game of Creation: Overcoming Unnecessary Obstacles 28:23 - Introduction to "Nostos," the Follow-up to "Unflattening" 28:43 - The Body in Motion: Thinking Through Action 29:25 - The Value of "Bad" Drawings and Happy Accidents 32:09 - Start of the Drawing Exercise: "A Map of Your Day" 38:14 - Reviewing and Discussing the Drawings Part 5: Q&A Session 44:05 - Q&A Starts: Thoughts on the Role of AI in the Creative Process 48:15 - On Making Tactile Comics for Blind Readers 49:02 - Has he made comics about mathematics? 52:40 - Are the pages from his new work published anywhere? 53:01 - Where can people take courses with him? 53:50 - How has the tactile comic work informed his thoughts on materiality? 01:02:33 - Session Music: Thinking in Comics ---- Visual PKM: 📽️ Knowledge Discovery Using Icons    • Improve knowledge discovery by reusing ico...   📽️ Rethink Writing    • Rethink Writing: Think Visually, Your Brai...   📽️ The Compass of Zettelkasten    • Connect Ideas with The Idea Compass and Vi...   📽️ 6 Strategies for Linking Visual Thoughts    • 6 Strategies for Linking your Visual Thoug...   📽️ 4D PKM    • 4D Visual Thinking: Effective PKM & the Vi...   📽️ Visually Connect Ideas    • The Visual Thinking Framework with Obsidia...   📽️ Digest What You Read    • Digest What You Read: Walkthrough of my pr...   Book on a Page Summaries: 📽️ Atomic Habits    • Book on a Page Summary of Atomic Habits by...   📽️ Building a Second Brain    • Part 1 Building a Second Brain Book on a Page   📽️ The Extended Mind    • The Extended Mind - Book on a Page   📽️ How To Take Smart Notes    • How to Take Smart Notes - Book on a Page   My tools and processes: 📽️ The Excalidraw-Obsidian Showcase: 57 key features in just 17 minutes    • The Excalidraw-Obsidian Showcase: 57 key f...   📽️ Getting Started with Excalidraw    • Getting Started with Visual PKM from scrat...   📽️ Getting Started with ExcaliBrain    • Getting started with ExcaliBrain - startin...   ---- #SketchYourMInd