Comic art and technical information

The technical details of Google's latest project, Google Chrome, is explained in comic book format by the contemporary master of sequential art, Scott McCloud. You can browse the comic online or read a summary overview at the Blogoscoped website.

The audience for this comic is clearly the technically inclined, so the text has not been dumbed-down. Yet it covers arcane topics such as garbage collection, threading, and virtual machines in a straight-forward and enlightening manner.

For more on using comic art for technical instruction, see Comic Life for Instructional Design, Enchanted Documentation, and Comic Art and Instruction.

Posted: September 1, 2008 link to this item, Tweet this item, respond to this item