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If you have more time than money — and if professional quality is not an issue — you might consider creating your own comic.… Read the full article
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If you have more time than money — and if professional quality is not an issue — you might consider creating your own comic.… Read the full article
Words + pictures communicate better than either one alone. Years of research show that comic strips, comic stories and comic books get people to:
All talk and no pictures make comics a dull read.
And that’s the first rule of comic dialogue: Leave room for the art.… Read the full article
When CenterPoint Energy needed to generate excitement for its United Way giving drive, they turned to some unlikely folks for help.… Read the full article
When Campus Progress ran “An Education in For-Profit Education,” Susie Cagle’s graphic story on education finance, the piece:
The article remains one of Campus Progress’ most popular stories of all time.… Read the full article
Women in rural Cameroon took 90% of the pills they were prescribed after seeing illustrated instructions. Those who received only verbal instructions took just 78% of the pills they were supposed to take.… Read the full article
Graphic storytelling not only gets people to pay attention to, understand and remember your message. It also changes audience behavior.… Read the full article
Comics, cartoons and other techniques that combine words and pictures get more attention than text alone.
That was the finding of two University of Michigan professors in a 1996 study.… Read the full article
How can you help students remember the difference between affect and effect, all ready and already and among and between?… Read the full article
Cartoons are worth at least 600 words, according to a series of studies by Richard E. Mayer, professor of Psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his team of researchers.… Read the full article