The development of digital comics to explain the photoelectric effect through biographies and history

Abstract

This research aims to produce comics in digital format to explain the photoelectric effect differently: variations between biographies and history. The method used in this study follows the steps: (1) literature study, (2) planning, (3) comic development, (4) validation test, (5) revision of validation test, (6) product trial, (7) Product revisions, and (8) comic application final products. The digital comics developed are comics that modify language texts, designs, and illustrations of the photoelectric effects of physical phenomena, which contain the history of the development of photoelectric effect phenomena starting from initial discoveries to the photoelectric effect theory that already exists today. Besides, it has an exciting plot because the concept of the photoelectric effect is conveyed through the history of photoelectric effects research and tells the life history of the inventors of the photoelectric effect phenomenon. This comic is packaged in the form of an android application.