Practical Examples of Comic Book and Creative Contracting
Below are practical examples of actual comic book contracts used to convey rights and liabilities in a visual form.
Comic book strips designed by Camilla Andersen and Loui Silvestro. The strips detail the need by 'Makers' to keep a detailed journal when contributing to a project. The journal allows them to keep a detailed record of the contribution made by the 'Makers', for both access to the rights of using whatever product they designed as well as to track the amount of payment they are owed.
Another example of a comic book strip designed by Camilla Andersen and Loui Silvestro. The comic strip details the specifics of abiding by Non-Disclosure Agreements. The comic strip clearly shows that although you CAN talk about the project you are working on, you CANNOT talk about how you go about conducting the project.
Examples of comic book contracting requested by the National Hardship Register which Camilla Andersen and Loui Silvestro help design. They depict circumstances in which people may find themselves suffering from hardship.
This image depicts the classic fundamental concepts of a contract; negotiation of an offer, followed by an acceptance of that offer which leads to a contract.
An example of visual contracting applied to Bankwest's Easy Transaction Account Product Schedule. Here we can see 'the fine print whisperer' (an informed character) walking a potential customer through everything they will need to know before entering into a contract with Bankwest.
Developmental Disability WA asked us and Alternative Contracting to "fix" the legalese sections at the end of their Easy Read contracts. They had developed great information with regard to a number of emergency services, but although the booklets were all in Easy Read format, the legal disclaimers etc at the back were anything but easy to read and remained in traditional verbose legal language. As a result, we developed simple Easy Read explainers for the core regulations of legal aspects of ownership, copyrights, rights, disclaimers and uses/contacts. These are now employed across a number of Easy Read information sheets as standard legal information, replacing the previous legalese in the
information provided by Developmental Disability WA.
