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Adaptable Adolescent: the Wonder of Adolescent Brain Development

Gomez, Nina; Mills, Kate (2024)

A comic describing the elasticity of the adolescent brain. Gomez and Mills explain how the brain matures and why being an adolescent can be confusing and challenging. Created in collaboration between undergraduate cartoonist ...
The Bell Game: Beating the Odds With Quantum Entanglement

Kyser, Margaret; Raymer, Michael (2022)

This comic explores quantum entanglement through the lens of a game show. It celebrates the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics by explaining how quantum entanglement can be applied in new technology. Created in collaboration ...
Flocking Birds and Active Matter

Ellis, Madison; Toner, John (2022)

In this hand-drawn comic a young witch learns from her crow familiar about how birds flock and are able to fly together in the correct direction. Created in collaboration between undergraduate cartoonist Madison Ellis ...
Leaf Cutter Ants: How Small Insects Cut Through a Big World

Cohen, Sam; Schofield, Robert (2022)

This comic explores the science behind how leaf cutter ants can cut through the same skin and leaves as much stronger animals, despite their relative lack of power. Leaf cutter ants and some other insects have extremely ...
Medusa's Shadow

Platenberg, Radio; McMorran, Ben (2023)

A stylized comic about a future where humans must hide from destructive aliens that explains quantum mechanics phenomena including the Elitzur-Vaidman effect and the Quantum Zeno Effect. Created in collaboration between ...
The Next Few Steps: a Patients's Journey Post-Stroke

Whiteman, Ellyce; Frederick, Rebecca (2024)

This digitally-drawn comic follows a stroke patient learning about her options for mobility recovery post-stoke. It explores interventions including physical therapy, occupational therapy, passive braces, walking aids, ...
Oregon Ions

Bedrick, Anja; Allcock, David (2022)

An informational comic on the science behind quantum computing, exploring the physical technology of Ion traps, the science of quantum entanglement, and what quantum computing could mean for the world. An approachable ...
Symmetry in Physics

Biersdorff, Page; Jeanty, Laura (2021)

A hand-drawn comic exploring symmetry in nature and physics, from symmetry in our everyday lives to symmetry in the universe and in atomic particles. This comic also explains asymmetries like the asymmetry between matter ...
THE SEDUCTIVE STRUCTURE: DOMESTIC RELATIONS, TRANSFORMATIVE SEXUALITY AND VISUAL ORGANIZATION IN JUNJI ITO’S HAUNTED WOOD MANSION

Platenberg, Torrey (University of Oregon, 2023)

This thesis consists of a close reading of mangaka Junji Ito’s short story Haunted Wood Mansion, utilizing classic and contemporary understandings of the projection of the human body onto architectural domestic space to ...
A Trip into Serotonin

McNamee, Audra; Mazzucato, Luca (2020)

A comic about how serotonin impacts the brains perception of the world. Created in collaboration between undergraduate cartoonist Audra McNamee and UO researcher Luca Mazzucato as part of the Science and Comics Initiative, ...
Violent Lens: Social Memory as Documentation in Performance Art (A Comics Based Analysis)

Mayne, Annika (University of Oregon, 2023-05)

Despite their obvious visual differences, photography and comics both work to represent a snapshot of a moment, a reality — documentative or imagined. Three notable contemporary performances from the United States: Chris ...