1. Why Are There So Many Explosions?!?
Graphic Narrative, Humor, and Engaging
Instruction in the Academic Library
Matt Upson
Assistant Professor
Reference and Instruction Librarian
Emporia State University
upsonlibrarian.weebly.com
With special thanks to Mike Hall for content and art (here’s some right now )

2. Why Comics?
A Little History

3. Our Comics

4. Other Library Guides

5. Technical and Attitudinal Comics
An Integrated Approach
TECHNICAL INSTRUCTIONAL COMICS give “instruction in procedures, process, and task performance…[S]uch tasks are, in themselves, sequential in nature.”
ATTITUDINAL INSTRUCTIONAL COMICS are useful for “conditioning an attitude toward a task.”
Our comics combine Eisner’s instructional models in order to create teaching tools that communicate simultaneously on multiple levels.
Will Eisner, Comics & Sequential Art, Tamarac, FL: Poorhouse Press, 1985 (143-44).

6. Technical Instruction

7. Utility and Practical Application
Comics
A means of communicating with students challenged by traditional texts* and non-majors**
*Gretchen Schwarz, “Expanding Literacies through Graphic Novels,” The English Journal 95.6 (2006):
**Hosler, J, and K. B. Boomer. “Are Comic Books an Effective Way to Engage Nonmajors in Learning and Appreciating Science?” CBE Life Sciences Education 10.3 (2011): 309–317.