Stories, Tips & Insights
Literacy, mental health, parenting, and the magic of reading — from our team to yours.
4 Apr 2026
Pictures before words: the 80-year research case for comics in education
In 1943, the U.S. Army used comics to achieve near-universal functional literacy among recruits in eight weeks. Eight decades of academic research has confirmed what the military discovered by accident.
5 Apr 2026
The vocabulary paradox: why comics are harder to read than you think
Comics expose readers to 53.5 rare words per thousand — more than children's books and comparable to adult literary fiction. The assumption that comics are linguistically undemanding is false, and it is testable.
11 Apr 2026
Shujaaz, Nuru, and the quiet African comics revolution: what Kenya already knows
In 2010, a free monthly comic appeared at Kenyan kiosks. By 2014, it had five million readers and was generating measurable rural productivity gains. Kenya has not been waiting for a comics-literacy revolution. It has been quietly running one for fifteen years.