Recent read : Understanding Comics

It’s a landmark book rather a comics on a art form “comics”
It tries and succeeds to an extent to lay a ground work for the visual syntactic and the is a must read for those who are into visualization business
Scott Mccloud also runs an online forum which gives the latest on the comics and his recent thoughts in enriching this art form.
A very convincing part among others is author’s triangular description of the reality, language and the picture plane, in a very elementary manner author elucidate on semiotics, semantics and linguistics and how the inter-relatedness of these concepts give rise to the way human think, visualize and express.
Also like layers in an onion, author peels an apple in an attempt to depict different levels involving any design/art form, which can be a textbook methodology for any designer.