Creating comics in Wixie

Kids think that comics are fun… and Wixie provides students with tools they can use to create their own.

Whether they are telling a fictional story, sharing information, or explaining a process, creating comics engages learners, deepens understanding and builds powerful communication skills.

"It is often the product itself that provides context and motivates students to learn."
Gary Stager, Genius of Print

Wixie's comic, graphic novel and cartoon features

Creating comics in Wixie is flexible and easy. Students can take advantage of Wixie's coloring book paint color to create artwork that is easy to color and shade. Combine with built in speech bubbles, clip art, backgrounds, and comic layout templates for fast results.

Students can also get more sophisticated with a full-page layouts and layers that can be shared online as books or animated projects or exported as multiple panels on a single sheet of paper.

Create comics to improve understanding

Creating comics helps make complex ideas concrete. Comics require students to combine text with non-linguistic representations. This multimodal approach improves retention and deepens understanding. Small panels and limited text in the comic genre also requires students to summarize and evaluate which information is most crucial to convey meaning.

Creating comics requires students to make choices about framing, sequence, and visual symbols, developing essential critical reading and writing skills for the visual-text hybrid forms they increasingly encounter.

Create comics to improve writing

Comics are a highly structured form of writing, help emerging writers focus on significant information and easily visualize how events flow in a logical sequence. They increase motivation and engagement and boost student's willingness to write and revise.

Designing a comic requires students to think about: