Australian comics artist Stuart McMillen has begun publishing The Town Without Television, which profiles a classic psychological study from the 1970s. The Town Without Television A classic study into the impact of television on a community. In 1973, researchers studied the last remaining Canadian town without TV reception, and ran ‘before’…

Weaver-Hightower, M. B. (2017). Losing Thomas & Ella: A Father’s Story (A Research Comic). Journal of Medical Humanities, 38(3), 215–230. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-015-9359-z Keywords Perinatal death, Grief, Fathers, Stillbirth, Sequential art, Comics-based research, Narrative research, Qualitative research, Research comics ABSTRACT: “Losing Thomas & Ella” presents a research comic about one father’s perinatal loss…

Written by Helen Kara and art by Sophie Jackson, Conversation with a Purpose is a pedagogical comic about research interviews. Helen says: This came about because I’m a Visiting Fellow at the UK National Centre for Research Methods and colleagues there have been doing some work on research methods pedagogy…

Read the comic in its entirety on The Comics Grid Abstract Throughout history, visualizations have played a central role in articulating scientific ideas and innovation. Even though technological systems and tools enables scientists to explore increasingly more ‘abstract’ scientific domains, sometimes traditional visualization techniques are no longer adequate to guide…

This comic was created as a draft/proposal for a graphic journal article, however, it wasn’t accepted. Standpoint epistemology is an extremely useful framework for anyone in the “business” of knowledge production to consider — academics, scientists, journalists, writers, artists… Autobiographical comics, in their representation of a subjective world lend themselves…

(Originally published on Lancaster University’s Graphic Novels and Comics /Research, Outreach & Pedagogy Network/ by Natasa Lackovic) Introducing part 1 of a 2-part-blog-entry hosted by Can Yalcinkaya. We are delighted to host blogs on Graphic Social Science, and spread the good word about the work of all the wonderful creators…

Published in April 2018 by Ad Astra Comix, The Beast: Making a Living on a Dying Planet is a unique combination of scholarly research and creative writing with the comics medium. From the press kit: “The Beast was born from a concern that there is a lack of genuine public…

Read the comic in its entirety here[58 pages] A classic behavioural psychology experiment. In the 1970s, researchers took eight strangers and shut them inside a dark room for an hour. What happened next? This comic by Australian cartoonist Stuart McMillen covers the infamous “Deviance in the Dark” experiments conducted by…

Read Rat Park in its entirety here [40 Pages] A classic experiment into drug addiction science. Would rats choose to take drugs if given a stimulating environment and social company? This comic by Australian cartoonist Stuart McMillen covers the infamous “Rat Park” drug addiction experiments conducted by Professor Bruce Alexander…