Sequential Science: A Guide to Communication Through Comics

Developing Comic of Human Skeletal System and Its Potential in Improving Junior High School Students' Learning Achievement

“…Not only does the comic play as a communication tool which encourages students' intrinsic motivation, but it also cultivates students' interest in learning materials [31], [49]- [52], including science and biology [34], [35], [53]. Furthermore, comic enables teachers to deliver knowledge to students through visual design in terms of art value [24], [36], [54], [55]. This visual design, as the consequences, will lead the students to be attracted to the knowledge delivered and empower them in constructing their own comprehension [49], [50], [52].…”

“…To be more detail, the visual design combines pictures and words in a comic. As comic is able to drive these both components to create a certain narration, this places comic as a better device compared to text book in facilitating a knowledge delivering [31], [35], [36], [50], [56]. The narration can be arranged into a story which describes science phenomena that occurred in daily activities, thus, it can contextualize the concepts learnt [49].…”

“…There have been many developed learning media as well as the studies discussed the effect of those media on learning process and student academic achievement [30,31]. Of the studies done, comic has been recognized as one of the potential media to cope with biology learning issues [32]- [36].…”

Communicating Islam Nusantara through Comic

“…Comics are form of communication activities [8] [9]. The authors can develop their ideas so that the readers will easily understand and take notes about the ideas [9][10] [11].For example Panji Koming strip comics which communicate moral messages and Javanese cultural values [12] andsome local Indonesian comicswhich are used as medium of da'wah [13].…”

Using Cartoons to Enhance Engineering Course Concepts

“…More literature was found discussing STEM comics than cartoons [1], [6], [7], [10], [11]. The distinction is important as comics are most often considered "sequential art" [12], while cartoons are single frame images.…”