<span>Once a week, I teach an electronics class for high school girls at Beaumont School in Cleveland Heights. I couldn't find a basic electronics textbook I really liked, so I started drawing a comic book for them. This is one of the pages from that comic, which serves as a reference for the resistor color code. I find that the needs of technical communication "expressing a concept in multiple ways, showing how ideas relate to and build on each other, getting your point across whether the reader skims or ruminates" are perfectly suited to the words-and-pictures alchemy of comics. This page uses a combination of </span><span>techniques I've learned from both engineering drafting and comic illustration, echoing engineering drawings in ligne claire style and making use, naturally, of color coding. And when I pass it out to my students, it's stapled like an old school `zine. Size: 9" by 12" Method: Pencil and ink on Bristol board, colored and lettered in Photoshop. This entry won second place in the CWRU category.</span>
