Educational Comics - A Special AMA with Dr. Kevin Thorn

2023-08-02

It all started with the BIG question on the table. Can comics help L&D communicate complex concepts, promote critical thinking, and foster greater learner engagement? Today we handed the microphone to Dr. Kevin Thorn as he answered all your burning questions about Educational Comics, from which types of comics are appropriate in a training situation to how reach across cultures with comics. There’s much to consider before we even put pen to paper and start sketching educational comics. Many different detai...

It all started with the BIG question on the table.

Can comics help L&D communicate complex concepts, promote critical thinking, and foster greater learner engagement?

Today we handed the microphone to Dr. Kevin Thorn as he answered all your burning questions about Educational Comics, from which types of comics are appropriate in a training situation to how reach across cultures with comics.

There’s much to consider before we even put pen to paper and start sketching educational comics. Many different details about character development, scene assessment and messaging - all to ensure that we are connecting people to the message, not subliminally creating disengagement through poor structure.

Educational Comics can be a powerful tool in your tool chest and Dr. Kevin helps us understand why.

Stay Curious!

Shannon

Find Kevin here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinthorn/

Video: https://vimeo.com/843859334/06405777cc

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Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/72PBdv65cKtI_8YVKb123Ikmn8M?utm_source=copy_url

Transcript Summary: https://www.learningrebels.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Comics-Unleashed_-An-AMA-On-Educational-Comics-For-Adult-Learning-With-Kevin-Thorn-Transcript-Summary.pdf

Chat Box: https://www.learningrebels.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/chat-3.pdf

Resources:

Graphic Medicine.org (website using graphic designs for Medicine)

Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative by Will Eisner

Will Eisner - Comics and Sequential Art 1985

Books:

PS Magazine: The Best of the Preventive Maintenance Monthly by Will Eisner and Eddie Campbell

Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud

Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels by Scott McCloud

Reinventing Comics: The Evolution of an Art Form by Scott McCloud

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