A creative way of learning/teaching about illness. But biases around being for kids, or frivolous, or simplistic.
But actually the ability to use images, fonts or other text effects means you can express things in ways both delicate and brutal that might require a lot of reading. Visual understanding is often more intuitive. By combining the two you are involving the different parts of the brain that handle language and image processing, and research shows understanding is enhanced.
They teach observational skills – you read but you must also interpret what is implied.
See MediKidz and GraphicMedicine.org.