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Graphic Journalism by Dan Archer

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What is Comics Journalism?

For a condensed summary of what comics journalism is, as a fully interactive comic, then click here.

Click here to listen to a recent radio interview I gave on the New Books Network for the launch of my recent graphic novel, Voices from Nepal: Using Comics Journalism to Uncover Human Trafficking.

This page is dedicated to showcasing graphic journalism/non-fiction talents around the world, from the professional level to grass-roots. I might even add an FAQ when I get the chance. For now, content yourselves with the following resources – and feel free to suggest any that I might have missed. To be clear: this is for multi-page, long-form comics, not single panel editorial cartoonists (Daryl Cagle), serialised 3-panellers (Doonesbury) or even multi-panel/multi-tiered rabble rousers. The idea is that the work is presented as a window into a subject that does more than scratch the surface of said news topic with incendiary rhetoric, but actually aims to inform (dare I say educate) the reader.

This is very much a work in progress, so please leave any more suggestions as a comment or send me an email if you feel I’ve missed anything/one off.

Listed below are some prominent comics journalists at the forefront of the field, followed by examples I’ve gleaned from around the world, organized by territory.

Comics Journalists:

    • Joe Sacco, the comics journalist de rigeur and author of Palestine, Safe Area Gorazde, The Fixer, and many more, but most recently the Ridenhour award-winning Footnotes in Gaza

Click here to listen to the panel discussion I shared with Joe Sacco on comics journalism when he came to Stanford in May 2011

Collectives:

Works:

Articles:

Comics Journalism by Region:

Europe:

GraphicJournalism.org, an Italian repository of comics journalism articles

Of the 2012 May protests in Russia

Articles on Comics Journalism:

Nieman Storyboard‘s Comic book news: a look at graphic narrative journalism (part 1)