Aside from my other comment, I think that any discussion about the scientific paper and the way knowledge is communicated is incomplete without a mention of Nic

Aside from my other comment, I think that any discussion about the scientific paper and the way knowledge is communicated is incomplete without a mention of Nick Sousanis' Unflattening. It is a thesis for a Doctor of Education degree about this very topic, that practises what it preaches by being written as a comic book. http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674744431 http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674744431