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Helder, M. 2008.  CS Dialogue 35(1):3. CELD ID 22779

Abstract
Have you ever noticed how hard it is to persuade young people (or anybody for that matter) to read useful or improving literature? If it isn't on the course, and if it doesn't count for marks, few people will even open a book's cover. An obvious choice to counteract that attitude is the comic book. Comics are certainly painless to read. A marginally interested individual is more likely to dip into such a book, and to proceed farther, than a person might in a book with prose and illustrations. The operative question then is whether such a format can usefully communicate information to teenage and twenty something age readers