Neil Cohen, visual linguist, reviews Making Comics by Scott McCloud. Neil does a nice job of making some distinctions between his approach to the visual and McCloud's approach, and I can't help but think that an email exchange I had with Neil influenced this review a bit.
Visual Culture and Language
This weblog supports a course called "Visual Culture and Language" taught at North Dakota State University since the Fall of 2003. It is being taught in the Spring semester, 2007, and generally will be on a two year cycle.