School visits, with lots of drawing

If you’re explaining concepts, it’s funny to me that for decades in America comics were primarily for delivering superhero stories, which are fun, and exciting, but it’s perfect for delivering infographics.

I can segue from narrative into infographic without even flipping a page. It’s just nonstop infographics, details, maps, what the weapons look like, what the people look like, action happening. All at the same time, kids are big re-readers of the graphic novels, they’ll read it once, and then they’ll read it again, and then they’ll read it again and again and again, because every time they’re reading it they’re kind of editing it in a different way in their head.

Maybe they’re making the battle go faster, maybe they’re just looking for things they missed. They go back again and again, and I get so many parents come up to me and say, “My kid was never a reader. My kid has a hard time reading. He’s got reading disabilities. Now they’re an insane history buff and it’s because of these books.”