New media to disseminate research? A comprehensive comic book on urban mobility issues. Book review of: E. Ravalet, S. Vincent-Geslin, V. Kaufmann, J. Leveugle. 2014 Slices of (mobile) life. A sociological survey and manifesto on work-related high mobility.

Graphic novels and books incorporating biographies and social chronicles are becoming increasingly common in all the best bookshops. This kind of illustrated reading is beginning to catch up with super-hero stories and the more traditional adventure, sci-fi and fantasy type comic books. The genre’s powerful educational potential has made it possible to open up to a wider, more curious and more diverse readership, subjects and themes that can sometimes be difficult to address (...)