Translating Traditional Contracts into Comic Contracts for Kids: The Initial Data from the Cockburn Toy Library Comic Contract

This paper is an account of the creation of, and data collected from, the focus group and impact testing of the Cockburn Toy Library visual contract, which was one of the first comic book contracts created for use with children (albeit signed by parents). The insight into its creation may explain how it sired future projects and initiatives in contracting for children in the visual contracting research space, and how we translate standard contracts into visual and comic contracts for everyone.

This article explains the methodology and approach taken in designing contracts in comic form for use amongst audiences including children. It relies on data collected over several projects done by the Comic Contracting research team, and looks specifically at the needs of children in legal imagery.