Comix allows students to quickly make a comic strip, but there are better tools our there with more creative options.

How I Use It

High school social studies students were assigned a concept and asked to create a comic strip to illustrate it. The unit was about the Enlightenment, so topics included such items as liberty, rule of law, separation of powers, freedom of religion, etc. Selected "Calvin and Hobbes" strips were provided to students as samples. Students were also given a list of about 50 quotes from enlightened philosophers. [See: http://andrew-taylor.weebly.com/uploads/1/8/8/6/1886740/7-enlightenment-dbq.pdf] A strip might show a child arguing about being punished by his Mom by saying, "There is no liberty if the judicial power is not separated from the legislative and executive branches (Montesquieu).”