Comics journalism

Comics journalism

Comics journalism is a form of journalism that covers news or non-fiction events using the framework of comics – a combination of words and drawn images. Although visual narrative storytelling has existed for thousands of years, the use of the comics medium to cover real-life events for news organizations, publications or publishers (in graphic novel format) is currently at an all-time peak. Historically, pictorial representation (typically engravings) of news events were commonly used before the proliferation of photography in publications such as The Illustrated London News and Harper's Magazine.

Maus and the Rise of the Graphic Memoir

Art Spiegelman's Maus, which won a Pulitzer Prize Special Award in 1992, retells the true story of Spiegelman's Father's survival and escape from a German Concentration Camp in World War 2.


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