Comics Are Magic: How Words and Images Create Content That Can't Be Ignored

Comic and cartoons aren't new, but it took the Internet to unlock their full potential. Find out how technology no more complicated than a jpeg can grab viewer's attention and deliver a message before they even realize they're receiving it.

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Terry LaBan has been a professional cartoonist for almost 30 years. He's worked as a political cartoonist, an artist and writer in the comic book industry(Fantagraphics Books, Dark Horse Comics, DC Comics), and his daily comic strip "Edge City" is syndicated by King Features and appears in the Philadelphia Inquirer. His company Cartoon Impact does marketing and educational comics and infographics. He's also an adjunct professor at Philadelphia University.