The Emerging Genre of Data Comics

What can we learn from comics to tell compelling stories with data and visualizations?

Benjamin Bach (University of Edinburgh / Harvard University),
Nathalie Henry Riche (Microsoft Research),
Sheelagh Carpendale (University of Calgary),
Hanspeter Pfister (Harvard University)

This page extends our thoughts summarized in the IEEE Computer Graphics and Application Article: The Emerging Genre of Data Comics.

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• Example Data Comics
• Inspirational Comics


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Data Comics Examples

We believe the following examples are data comics as they tell stories with visualizations, data, and textual annotations.

Inspirational Comics

Comics below provide an interesting source for creating data comics.