7 tools for doing it yourself
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
Comics
Dialogue do’s and don’ts
Leave room for the pictures!
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
Superheroes to the rescue
Put this tool in your utility belt
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
Illustrated journalism comes of age
Get read, shared & revisited with graphic storytelling
When Campus Progress ran “An Education in For-Profit Education,” Susie Cagle’s graphic story on education finance, the piece:
- Was featured on the front page of The Huffington Post
- Was picked up by LifeHacker
- Got more than 4,000 Facebook shares and likes
- Garnered more than 700 tweets
- Received more than 800 comments
The article remains one of Campus Progress’ most popular stories of all time.… Read the full article
Make the medicine go down
Graphic storytelling gets patients to follow their RXs
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
Move people to act
Comics change behavior as well as minds
Graphic storytelling not only gets people to pay attention to, understand and remember your message. It also changes audience behavior.… Read the full article
See what I mean
Cartoons increase understanding by 633%
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
Cartoons double understanding
Words + pictures teach better
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 communicate better than text
Increase understanding by 51%
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
Now you see it
Graphic storytelling teaches better than text
The studies are in: If you want to communicate more clearly, use comics, cartoons, storyboards and other graphic storytelling approaches instead of or in addition to text.… Read the full article