The research aimed to study the effects of webcomics on students‘ reading comprehension ability. Ten hypotheses were generated from three main research questions. The webcomics were developed by employing the principles of multimedia learning on designing of multimedia presentations and the Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning. This study employed a quasi-experimental design with multiple method enquiries, a survey and a focus group interview. A pre-test was administered prior to the six week intervention and a post-test after that. A set of questionnaires was distributed to the experimental group and a focus group interview was held after the quasi-experiment to obtain data on the effect of webcomics on the students‘ comprehension of the text. The dependent variables of comprehension studied were literal comprehension, reorganisation, inference and prediction. The respondents were 34 students in the experimental group and 33 students in the control group. They were .....

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