Comics are powerful visual messages that convey immediate visceral meaning in ways that conventional texts often cannot. This article's authors created comic strips to teach anatomy more interestingly and effectively. Four-frame comic strips were conceptualized from a set of anatomy-related humorous stories gathered from the authors' collective imagination. The comics were drawn on paper and th...

ABSTRACT Is there a way to analyze games by the means of a game? Is there a way to brainstorm game ideas and design solutions through theory? Finnish scholar and game designer Aki Järvinen presents an approach where a card game meets design meets game studies. The approach presented in the paper is similar to Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics: a theory of comics in the form of a comic book. ...

“Upfixes” are graphic representations originating in the visual vocabulary used in comics where objects float above a character’s head, such as lightbulbs to mean inspiration. We posited that these graphic signs use an abstract schema stored in memory. This schema constrains upfixes to their position above the head and requires them to “agree” with the expression of their associated face. We as...

In the context of Japanese cultural postmodernism, phenomenon resuming literary masterpieces in comic book form appears as a juxtaposition with specific purpose, resulting hybrid which we would regard komiXLit. As part way knowledge, interpret komiXLit an alternative model whose characteristic is that combination two apparently contradicting terms: “high” literature and mang...

This poster presents findings from analyses of student comic books that documented a field trip to an art, science, and technology museum. Findings include that comics allowed students to demonstrate via words and images more than acquired content knowledge, including understanding about diverse aspects of the trip like affect and social situations (average alpha = .86) and testify to the relia...