This article proposes that comics offer new avenues for Wissenschaftskommunikation to think through these challenges based on what we could term the decentered nature of this medium. In the context of cognitive psychology, decentering refers to an act of so-called “meta-cognitive” awareness: the ability of the individual to step outside of their immediate experience, thereby changing the very nature of that experience.” Just as individuals can develop this capacity in everyday life, so too do the properties of comics as a pictorial and graphic form make it particularly well-suited to decentering the reader, thereby allowing them to reassess the world around them. This kind of self-reflexive communication emerges out of graphic literature’s tendency toward condensation, multidimensionality, and hermeneutic depth.

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Dr. Emily Allegra Dreyfus is a research associate at the Leibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung (ZZF) in Potsdam. Photo: L. Bianchi, Bogliasco Foundation