Explaining through Comics
As students differ in their prior knowledge and learning preferences, Comixplain promotes student-centred teaching and learning by offering alternative didactic materials that cater to individual needs. We propose a storytelling-based approach to engage students in learning scientific subjects through comics.
Comixplain is a project developed at University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten (USTP), Austria, and funded by the USTP's Innovation Call 2022.
User Guide
We have prepared a helping guide from Comixplain to support lecturers and instructors. Our intent with this guide is to help you better understand comics and how to create them.
English | PDF, 3 MB German - PDF, 3 MB
Attribute Types
Central Tendency
Mathematical Thinking
Primitive Types
Community Contributions
Comixplain is a modular solution. Editable files are available in our repository, allowing you to use the stories as they are or to adapt them according to your needs. You can even use the provided assets to create your own stories from scratch. We encourage you to share any adaptation you make of our stories under the same licensing scheme.
See Comixplain derivatives in our repositoryRecent Updates:
Gittixplain
A Comixplain-inspired comic created by Maxima Eder to explain the basics of the version control system Git.
Measuring UX
A Manga-style comic created by Dr. Mounia Ziat for the course HF751 Measuring User Experience.
Comixcraft
A web comic editor created by A. Holla, A. Blasinger, A. Muneret, F. Gabillon, H. Wagner, J. Matsumura, and V. Koeck
Comic Construction Kit
An educational activity for Data Visualization by M. Boucher, C. Stoiber, M. Keck, V. De-Jesus-Oliveira, and W. Aigner
Interactive Web Comic
Web-Comic for Nuclear Medicine Education created by Silvia Angjeliu. Currently available only in German
New Translations
Share the news!Comixplain editions are now available in French, Spanish, and Italian!
Catalog Search
A new interface was created by Anna Blasinger to facilitate finding assets in the Comixplain repository
Augmented Comics
Students at the Creative Media Summer School 2023 created Augmented Reality applications to enrich our comics
First Editions
First release of Comixplain editions in English, German, and Portuguese (pt-br), both in PDF and PowerPoint formatsNews
- Event participation at nextcomic-Festival, in Linz on March, 2026.
- Comixplain team member Victor De-Jesus-Oliveira serves as the Austrian representative on the Management Committee of the COST Action "Comics and Sciences through Multidisciplinary Investigation and Collaboration" (COS-MICs) since October, 2025.
- Event participation at nextcomic-Festival, in Linz on March, 2025.
- Press release feature "LERN-COMICS" at ORF ZIB ZACK Mini. Published on March, 2025, at ORF.at.
- Press release "Warum Comics beim Lernen helfen können". Published on March, 2025, at ORF.at.
- Press release "Comics zum effektiven Lernen" featuring Alena Boucher and Magdalena Boucher. Published on March, 2025, at Niederösterreich heute - ÖRF.
- Poster "Comixplain: Comics on Visualization Foundations in Higher Education". Presented on October, 2024 at IEEE Visualization and Visual Analytics (IEEE VIS).
- Event participation at "Lange Nacht der Forschung", in St. Pölten on May, 2024.
- Press release "Wer mit Comics lernt, kann sich Schulstoff besser merken". Published on May, 2024 by the online magazine Campus Schulmanagement.
- Press release "Mit Comics die Wissenschaft erklären". Published on March, 2024 by St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences and local press
- Event participation at Interpaedagogica, in Linz on November, 2023.
