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Comics journalism


  • Here are entered works on comics that employ journalistic techniques to present news stories and events.
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    • Comics, Journalistic
    • Graphic journalism (Comic books, strips, etc.)
    • Graphic reportage (Comic books, strips, etc.)
    • Illustrated reporting (Comic books, strips, etc.)
    • Journalistic comics
    • Reportage, Graphic (Comic books, strips, etc.)
    • Reporting, Illustrated (Comic books, strips, etc.)
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    • found: Work cat.: Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. Art of the news : comics journalism, 2021:p. 6 ("comics or graphic journalism is an umbrella term that covers any approach to reporting using both words and images together"; "comics journalism includes any reported story in comics") (summary: "The Art of the News: Comics Journalism is the first major retrospective devoted to this increasingly influential genre of visual narrative") (OCoLC)1309956766
    • found: Duncan, R. Creating comics as journalism, memoir and nonfiction, 2016:p. 1 ("In short, comics published as journalism, memoir, and nonfiction have become an increasingly popular art form, available to anyone with a nonfiction story to tell") (OCoLC)934749650
    • found: Ahmed, S. Still alive : graphic reportage from Australia's immigration detention system, 2022(summary: "Still alive documents the conditions, experiences and deprivations of Australia's system of mandatory and indefinite detention for asylum seekers and refugees. Drawing from Safdar Ahmed's experiences as a volunteer in Sydney's Villawood detention centre, it contains the testimony of refugees and workers in a system that is often decried by human rights organisations for its cruelty") (OCoLC)1338300517
    • found: Michigan State University Libraries Special Collections Division, Reading Room index to the comic art collection, viewed May 12, 2023"Comics Journal--Articles About" to "Comics Journal's" ("Comics journalism: reporting in comics format")
    • found: Pedri, N. A concise dictionary of comics, 2022:p. 43 ("graphic journalism (also comics journalism and graphic reportage) a type of journalism that uses comics to depict the news and other noteworthy nonfiction events") (OCoLC)1289618123
    • found: Schlichting, L. Authorship in comics journalism, 2021:p. 42 (journalistic comics "are sometimes wrongly equated with 'documentary comics.' But while documentary 'is about the presentation of evidence' ... the journalistic form of reportage negotiates between 'artistically reshaped journalism and journalistically legitimized art'") (OCoLC)1263743261
    • found: Google Books NGram Viewer, viewed May 4, 2023(Comics journalism 37%; Graphic journalism 16%; Graphic reportage 6%)
    • found: The daily cartoonist, website viewed May 19, 2023("The Washington Post illustrated reporting page gathers past and present graphic stories from the paper" ; "The Washington Post created a page on their website dedicated to comics journalism")
  • General Notes

    • Here are entered works on comics that employ journalistic techniques to present news stories and events.
  • History Notes

    • [Established October 2023.]
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  • Change Notes

    • 2023-05-19: new
    • 2023-10-18: revised
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