Larson brings the dynamite and the match together and the reader does the rest. Comics explain processes Since comics are sequential in nature, they lend themselves very well to processes, to explanation. An independent visual - an illustration or photo can exist by itself and lends itself to a single thought. Comics, on the other hand is a series of visuals that can illustrate or explain a process. Some learn and understand better from words while others from images.
Comics combine both in a unified language.
If you have a complicated process to explain or a complex sequence of information to communicate, comics are ideal vehicles. Increasingly, from editorial illustrations to explaining how to file you tax returns are being presented through comics. Not just drawing skills, but writing, scripting, visualizing, set designing and a host of other skills. Nonfiction comics tends towards the idea that in order to teach the reader anything, you first needed to cook up a story or conflict that had nothing to do with it, or was only peripherally related to the subject, and then you could slip in the message at some point. In a regular comics narrative, it would seem strange if two people are having a conversation, and one of them begins to talk on a particular subject, and suddenly, the next three panels are taken up with illustrations of that subject.