Comic #2037: 2010-12-11

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Title: THE GRAPHVELLA:

Any story can be told in 3 charts or fewer.

Example 1: Zombie Movie

Fig. 1

• Title:
  • "March" (Pie chart: Infected Population)
  • "April" (Pie chart: Uninfected Population)
• Sections:
  • Infected Population (small section)
  • Uninfected Population (larger section)

Fig. 2

• "Zombies are everywhere" (Top)
• Flowchart:
  • Is this guy a zombie?
    • Yes:
      • Can you escape?
        • No: Leads to "Death"
    • No: Leads to "Hide in a small confined space with a group of people from different backgrounds."

Fig. 3

• Title: Biomass of Human Brains (Graph)
• X-axis: Human History
• Y-axis: Biomass of Human Brains (increasing curve)

Example 2: Romantic Comedy

Fig. 1

• Skills possessed by the male:
  • Bar Graph showing:
    • Intelligence (Blue bar)
    • Sense of Humor (Blue bar)
    • Hostage Negotiation (Blue bar)
    • Love (Blue bar, shorter)
• Skills possessed by the female:
  • Bar Graph showing:
    • Intelligence (Pink bar)
    • Sense of Humor (Pink bar)
    • Business Negotiation (Pink bar, shorter)
    • Love (Pink bar, shortest)

Fig. 2

• Graph showing:
  • Y-axis: Integrity of Romantic Relationship
  • X-axis: Time
  • Line depicting:
    • Contrived Miscommunication (Small spike)
    • Man humiliates self in charming and expensive manner (Peak and drop)

Example 3: Zombie Romantic Comedy

Fig. 1

• Graph showing:
  • Y-axis: Integrity of Romantic Relationship
  • X-axis: Time
  • Line depicting:
    • Contrived Miscommunication (Small spike)
    • Man humiliates self in charming and expensive manner (Peak)
    • Man eats woman's face (Drop)

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