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http://dx.doi.org/10.5392/JKCA.2018.18.12.102

Comic Strips on Health Drawn by a Medical Doctor  

Kim, Seul Ki (아주대학교 의과대학 해부학교실)
Lee, Jin Han (동아일보)
Chung, Min Suk (아주대학교 의과대학 해부학교실)
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Abstract
Through the humorous comic strips which contain beneficial health information, people are able to accept the information willingly. The corresponding author as a medical doctor has elaborated four-frame comic strips including the health information and published 27 episodes in the major domestic newspaper. The aim of this research informing the author's experiences was to help other experts distribute their knowledge through the comics. For the comic strips, writing was succeeded by drawing. Writing was done as follows: First, the useful and followable health information was introduced to make the comic strips beneficial. Second, the information was logically explained to make the comic strips easy. Third, the information was mixed with joke to make the comic strips funny. As far as the author experienced, it was advantageous for the experts to draw comics by themselves. If ones have expertise in their fields such as law, architecture, they can be confident of drawing good comics.
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Cartoon; Health Education; Public Health Information; Expert; Internet;
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