Pembangunan komik pendidikan sebagai solusi kepada stigma sosial pembaca Malaysia : isu, elemen dan implikasi

As the invaluable artistic heritage of the motherland, a large number of action plans to raise the prestige
of comics in Malaysia has been realized by various parties. However, there is still a negative stigma
against comics in the societies. To support the development of educational comic as one of the solutions
to strengthen public support for visual media, this article examines the key elements in comic education
listed according to different categories. It aims to identify how the educational elements are integrated in
comic. The findings appear consistent with two general classifications of instructional comic expressed
by the international pioneers of comic arts, Will Eisner as the educational comic with factual contents and
contents for the formation of attitudes. The analysis also concludes that the educational comic embraces
the potential to become the primary choice among the children and adolescents as the content meets the
intellectual and emotional needs of these groups. This article also explains the importance of conducting
further research to monitor the extent of comic education being received by comic readers under the
collaboration of activists from the comic industries in the country