From 5 December 2021 to 10 January 2022, an exhibition “Science in comics” will be held in the JINR Blokhintsev Universal Public Library (13/7 Blokhintsev str.).

On Sunday, 5 December, at 5:00 PM, the opening ceremony of the new exhibition will be held.

In 2018, a new format of science popularisation appeared in Russia – comics based on current scientific research.

Drawn stories about work of researchers of the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) were collected in a book “That’s true! A baker’s dozen comic strips about science and scientists”. The main characters of the stories are Russian leading scientists: Mikhail Gelfand, Konstantin Severinov, Albert Nasibulin, and others.

The book was long-listed for the 2019 Educator Award and became a finalist of the Vth All-Russian Award “For Loyalty to Science” in 2019. It received the 2nd degree award in the special award nomination “Breakthrough of the Year”.

The team of the Comicaze artel will share its working experience with sci-comics at the opening ceremony of the exhibition.

The exhibition will be opened by:

• a scientific journalist, a cofounder of the Comicaze artel, an author of scripts and ideas for comics, a producer of popular science projects Alyona Lesnyak.
• a journalist, a cofounder of the Comicaze artel, a script writer of comics Lina Aleksyunayte.

You should come:

• If you are interested in modern popular scientific literature;
• If you are interested in ways to promote science without speaking in public;
• If you are interested in the whole process of the creation of comics: how they are produced, who are the members of the team, steps, particular techniques for solving tasks;
• If you want to win a book “That’s true! A baker’s dozen comic strips about science and scientists”. Two copies will be presented for the best question.

Skoltech, MSU, Higher School of Economics (HSE University), UNESCO, Russian Movement of Schoolchildren, Laba.Media, Bookmate are partners of the artel.

Admission is free.