Comics are such a powerful educational tool. Simply put, there are certain kinds of information that are best communicated through sequential visuals.
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With comics you can put interesting and solid information in a format that's pretty palatable.
In academia in general, there's this push toward using comics as an educational tool.
Comics is a great medium to get a lot of stories out.
I think comics is a really good way to talk about skepticism and atheism and things like that... it was easy to tell those stories and, I think, helpful to some people to tell them in comic form. Using visuals makes it easier to break stuff down and makes it somewhat easier to understand.
One of the things about comics is people can linger on images and words as long as they want.
Learning to write comics is, in fact, so bloody difficult because it's such a weird form that it does actually make you a bit more adaptable for other forms.
Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively.
I had a lot of ideas on how comics worked and pretty early on I had this idea that it would be fun to explain them in comics form.
So much of comics are dictated by characters talking to one another - or in focused spaces where 'the camera' has to stay in pretty close on what's going on.
Comics are a particularly esoteric field where you really learn how to do it, by doing it or by learning from other practitioners.