Communicating Science through Comics: A Method

Scientists are trained to tell stories, scientific stories. Training is also needed to comprehend and contextualize these highly nuanced and technical stories because they are designed to explicitly convey scientific results, delineate their limitations, and describe a reproducible ‘plot’ so that any thorough reenactment can achieve a similar conclusion. Although a carefully constructed scientific story may be crystal clear to other scientists in the same discipline, they are often inaccessible to broader audiences. AGYA members Jan Friesen, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung – UFZ, and Skander Elleuche have published a paper on 'Communicating Science through Comics: A Method' where they suggest a flexible framework to translate a complex scientific publication into a comprehensible comic format.

• Article: 'From Scientists, for Scientists, and Beyond: a Method to Develop a Comic Based on Your Research'
• Making of: A Double Page Comic Template
• 1st AGYA Science Comic
• Launch Event: 1st AGYA Science Comic
• Spotlight on survival artists: Saltwater plants as biomass for energy production?

August 2018

Picture by Tyasseta & Siloy