Unflattening

Nick Sousanis’s Unflattening (2015–present, Harvard University Press) is a single-issue, book-length comic that argues for the power of visual thinking in academic and intellectual life. Written and drawn entirely by Sousanis, it uses the comics medium itself to explore how we perceive, know, and imagine, blending philosophy, science, and art into a dense, word-and-image tapestry. Originally published as his doctoral dissertation, it stands as a landmark experiment in form, proving that complex theoretical ideas can be communicated through sequential art.