In the current Oregon Quarterly, CSWS faculty affiliate and assistant professor Kate Kelp-Stebbens, English, talks about her role in a new program that pairs undergraduate artists with faculty researchers to create science comics.
According to the article, "Since its launch in spring 2020, the partnerships have given rise to a growing stack of brightly illustrated and entertaining comics that are remarkably effective vehicles for science communication."
“We’re seeing that so much more is possible,” says Kelp-Stebbins, director of comics studies, in the article. “Science comics is one example of how we’re getting crossover between what we would consider informatics systems and artistic systems of expression that are being used in tandem to really reach a much more mainstream audience, but also to democratize these forms of knowledge and get more people reading about the world.”