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July 3, 2008
Comics and visual communication
One of the best books written on the subject of communication with comics is called Understanding Comics: The invisible Art by Scott McCloud. If your job involves presenting information to others then this book will not disappoint. By the way … this is a serious book and not just for comic lovers! (Hat Tip to Garr Reynolds for the recommendation)
Thanks to Viv, I stumbled across Plasq.
Plasq have software called Comic Life and allows a 30 day trial period. I am Day 1 of the trial and discovered that it links with my webcam. Here is a not so serious example of what can be done quickly and easily …
Some Serious ‘Comic-Life’ Applications for facilitators and sustainability change-agents …
- create invitations to community workshops and conferences by government departments
- turn images into comics and comic strip-stories for slideshows and presentations
- allow workshop participants to design their own comic strip stories (about their organisation … their visions etc) and comic images to represent something about themselves and/or others
- For project web pages and blogs/forums
Geoff
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Hi Geoff
I had a chance to hear Scott speak at the VizThink conference this past January and was impressed with what he had to say. He has a passion for comics and articulated how this particular form of visual communication is able to reach people in ways that words alone cannot.
I’m not a comics person (I work in a different aspect of the visual communication field), but I appreciated his perspective.
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