Science and storytelling have an uneasy relationship. The scientific community frequently disdains stories, seeing them as polluting the purity of objective communication of data. In the peer-review process, for example, scientists who tell stories with their data are seen as "embellish[ing] and conceal[ing] information to evoke a response in their audience," far from the ideal of the bias-free scientist (Katz, 2013). In this article, the author presents a project that he taught his students, which explores telling the stories of the elements by creating graphic novels.