found: LCSH, Oct. 21, 2014(Documentary comic books, strips, etc.)
found: Key Terms in comics studies, 2022:p. 93 ("In comics studies the term documentary has emerged in response to the notable expansion in comics works that uses witnessing as methodology and presents 'encounter' as a prominent feature. However, documentary can also describe the process of using archival sources to retrospectively construct a narrative"; "Documentary comics have been situated in relation to a range of historical precursors, including but not limited to illustrated journalism"; "The umbrella term documentary captures concerns shared by comics journalism, biography, autobiography and comics performing advocacy: narrative construction and notions of authenticity, credibility and claims to truth, questions of intent, affect and the ethics of representation")
found: Pedri, N. A concise dictionary of comics, 2022:p. 29 ("Documentary comics: comics that claim to truthfully represent historical people, sociohistorical issues, and events in specific, actual contexts")
found: Mickwitz, N. Documentary comics : graphic truth-telling in a skeptical age, 2016:p. 7 ("documentary comics" concerned with "the politics of representation historically embedded in social realism") p. 8 ("'documentary manga'" as "manga with pedagogical aims and factual content") p. 9 ("those comics that take the actual and historical real as their subject and documentary (more commonly assumed to be identified by its use of recording technologies) share an ambition to narrate and visually represent real people, events, and experiences, and consequently offer their readers and audiences comparable positions"; "documentary involves construction rather than transparent duplication of the reality it records")
found: Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. Art of the news : comics journalism, 2021:p. 311 (Peruvian comics artist Jesus Cossio prefers "to call what I do documentary comics" because he "did not do any journalistic fieldwork, but looked for [already created] documentation" about the topics of his comics)
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: Oxford English dictionary, viewed May 15, 2023(Documentary: 4. "Factual, realistic; applied esp. to a film or literary work, etc., based on real events or circumstances, and intended primarily for instruction or record purposes")
found: Schlichting, L. Introduction to graphic realities : comics as documentary, history, and journalism, in ImageText v. 11, iss. 1, 2019, viewed May 18, 2023("with the pioneering work of Joe Sacco, comics has also been fruitfully employed to materialize the experiences of others, often from marginalized groups. Yet, as this special issue shows, graphic narrative forms a long-standing tradition of addressing 'realities' that precedes the current format of the graphic reportage. Comics have been analyzed and theorized as works of documentary ..., history ... and journalism"; "These different genres all face the challenge to do justice to the lives of other people, with a keen awareness of their responsibilities to the encountered witnesses")
