wissenscomix
Science in the Speech Bubble
Science in Comic Format
Smartass as a maxim
What are the dark sides of consumer society? What transformation do schnitzel, tartlets and sandwiches undergo in our digestive tract? How does energy production work in the deep sea? What are conflict materials? Where does the sausage go when we press the flush? What secrets do the oceans hold for us? Questions, questions, questions.... There are pages and pages of entertaining answers: Knowledge from the speech bubble! For all smart alecks and smarty-pants and know-it-alls and for all those who want to become one: With wissenscomix, we have created a new source of intellectual amusement for you.
Our Offer
Individual Comic Development
Dull project posters, long reports, PowerPoint deserts and clip art diagrams are a thing of the past: Knowledge in a speech bubble - that is the motto of wissenscomix.
Because with exciting stories, complex topics can not only be actively understood - they are also remembered. Phenomena, objectives, methods and results of current research presented in an everyday way and at eye level - that is the simple yet captivating idea behind wissenscomix.
Results of current research
Close to everyday life & at eye level
Clearly, comics are fun and they offer an ideal framework for creating a vivid and refreshing knowledge resource for a highly diverse readership with very different experiences and prior knowledge.
We have been involved in the design of a wide variety of knowledge formats for almost two decades. We are specialist authors, designers and illustrators. From the initial idea to the concept, storyline and character development, we involve you in the design of your individual wissenscomix. We take care of the design, production and promotion of your comics.
Max Planck's
Adventure Deep Sea
When Marina, Max and Molly set sail, there is always a lot to discover. In the new Max Planck science comic series Deep Sea Adventure, we show you with lovingly illustrated stories how diverse life is in our seas. We live in the age of information and believe that the world has been largely explored. Not at all! The map of our knowledge has many blank spots. Around 95% of the world's oceans are still unexplored.
In Deep Sea Adventure, you and the Deep Sea crew embark on an adventurous journey to the seabed and back. How important the smallest sea creatures are for the entire ecosystem and ultimately for our planet is regularly made clear. When, for example, seagrass meadows bind CO2 with the help of bacteria or mussels and tube worms use toxic sulfur gases as a source of food, then our three heroes know how and why it works. In order to unravel the secrets of the largest ecosystem on earth, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology are studying the smallest of sea creatures: single-celled organisms. And they may be small but they're mighty! Because these artists of life manage to survive even in the absolute darkness of the deep sea.
In the first volume of Adventure Deep Sea, Max, Marina and Molly go in search of clues at a depth of over 3000 meters. Along the Mid-Ocean Ridge, a mountain range in the deep sea that spans the earth, underwater volcanoes, the so-called black smokers, are the only source of energy for miles around.
Great Explanatory Spectacle
The Explainatorium
In the Explainatorium, questions from science, technology and society are presented and explored in an entertaining way. And of course, we don't beat around the bush. Sometimes we get down to the nitty-gritty. What goes into the sausage, where does the straw end up after the party and why are smartphones not actually that smart? The stories are led by an illustrious group who can be seen as the alter egos of the makers of the Explainatorium. Professor Päp, the monkey Lämmy and his roommates rush straight into the big and small questions of our universe. The interested readers not only get some enjoyable entertainment, but also regularly get useful small talk material for the next party. Basically the perfect smart-ass format.
From A as in laxative to Z as in Inlet
Chewing, pooping, sewage treatment plant
Everything has to come out: Chewing, shitting, sewage plant! A real sh*t title? But this is not just about the most basic needs, but, as always in the Explainatorium, also about the bigger picture. We take you on a fascinating journey through the body, behind closed toilet doors, through the sewer system and into the sewage treatment plant. In the first edition of the Explainatorium you will find out what transformation schnitzel, cakes and lunchboxes go through in our digestive tract, where the sausage rushes off to when we flush the toilet and how wastewater becomes drinking water again.
