teaching comics

They combine clear illustrations and sequential storytelling with relatable characters, concrete examples and worked problems to make abstract ideas more accessible and engaging for learners.

Typical features include step-by-step drawing guides, practice prompts and one-page exercises, a consistent panel/lettering vocabulary, and contributions or demos from experienced cartoonists to build sequential storytelling skills.

They appear in paperback and hardcover editions and as mixed-media classroom resources; some classroom guides are produced in spiral-bound editions to make photocopying easier.

Some classroom editions are spiral-bound to ease photocopying, and at least one guide includes a CD with PDF pages for use on whiteboards or local intranet systems.

All listed titles in this set are published in English.

The calculus guide explicitly includes numerous worked examples and problem sets; the introductory statistics title uses illustrative examples and teaches data collection and analysis.