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12 Science Comics

  • Heike Elisabeth Jüngst
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Abstract

Science plays an important part in many comics. Scientific topics appear in educational comics for the interested public or for school use as well as in narrative comics like science fiction comics or biographies. In all these cases, the comics format plays an important role in rendering the scientific facts. The boundaries between the genres are to some extent permeable: patterns from superhero comics may be used in educational comics in order to make the topic more palatable; scientists’ biographies use typical patterns from biographical comics in general, from hagiographies and biopics.

Abstract

Science plays an important part in many comics. Scientific topics appear in educational comics for the interested public or for school use as well as in narrative comics like science fiction comics or biographies. In all these cases, the comics format plays an important role in rendering the scientific facts. The boundaries between the genres are to some extent permeable: patterns from superhero comics may be used in educational comics in order to make the topic more palatable; scientists’ biographies use typical patterns from biographical comics in general, from hagiographies and biopics.

Heruntergeladen am 25.12.2025 von https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110446968-013/html
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