Abstract:
From a visual literacy perspective, images engender a diversity of meanings.
Cartooning is one form of visual expression that has the ability to present layers
of understanding in suggestive forms combining visual and textual literacies.
Reading cartoons especially those with editorial or satirical intent, reveal frames
of meaning and graphic symbolism encoded through socio-cultural
understandings. The use of cartooning as a communicative medium in interactive
design allows information to be communicated broadly and rapidly. 'War and
Peace' is an example of web-based educational design that uses cartooning as
the mode of communication. It exemplifies the way cartooning can efficiently deal
with information in a non-linear and framed manner particularly pertinent to
interactive communication.
