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What are web comics
Web comics are illustrations based on artistic abilities on any particular theme which mainly possess characters and dialogues; the mode of transaction of content in web comic regardless of its purpose is visual. A web comic has two main component ‘words’ and ‘pictures’, using these two concepts any topic can be transacted in any way the author wants to, when we look into the history of this particular endeavor we can see that web comic have had different names throughout the history especially in 1944 when Journal of Educational sociology stressed upon using comic as a tool in teaching and learning process, but there is a difference between comic and web comic. Comics are drawn by artists with their drawing capabilities and thus not anyone can be a comic artist but web comics are produced with the use of various sophisticated software’s which largely require technological knowledge ,skills, creativity, linguistic ability and critical thinking ability rather than artistic skills. The most commonly used tools with relation to web comics in educational setups are comic strips, comic book, cartoon strips, graphic novel and sequential art. Web comics most often use story telling mode of narration and try to incorporate humor in the dialogues so as to capture the attention of the learners.

Can they be used as a teaching aid
Yes we could and the goals of using web comic as a teaching aid is similar to using any visual teaching aid.one of the most important goal to be mentioned on using web comic to deliver content with respect to the designed curriculum, is to stimulate many senses at the same time so that the students can think, relate, hypothesis, and come up with idea’s as they understand the concept with a visual basis.For that matter in a crude sense web comic is a combination of technological art and can be said as a device involving visual resources because a picture can be worth thousand words.It could also be prophesied that by using web comics in a classroom,learners could acquire the skills of expressing the content in a concise form which is on to the mark, to consider adding value system whenever necessary through  doodles, to comprehend the theory behind comic art which could in turn develop creative and critical thinking in learners, to understand the concept of dramatic conflict which allows learners to put any form of content into a dramatic plot which enables the learners to filter out efficiently only the important concepts in the content and to use them accordingly in a practical scenario, to comprehend narrative art which would allow the learners to collect background and historical knowledge of the content so as to put the valid points in their narration, by learning how to fictionalization the contents students learn to connect the valid points with day to day life.

Reference
https://search.proquest.com/docview/1857448906/72AD042302994A60PQ/1?accountid=38885