Comics journalism is an increasingly popular non-fiction comics genre that engages journalistic practices and techniques to narrate in comics form a real-world news event that the author or graphic journalist has either experienced firsthand, or has thoroughly researched. Typically, the news stories in comics journalism tackle social, economic, and political realities and events that are often underrepresented in, or altogether overlooked by, mainstream media. These stories can appear in the form of short comics published in magazines or newspapers or longer, book-length graphic novel publications. For this reason, some critics consider comics journalism to be “a broad umbrella term applied to that form of journalism which uses comics as a means to cover non-fiction events” (Afshana…
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Citation: Pedri, Nancy. "Comics Journalism". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 21 August 2024 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=19659, accessed 25 November 2024.]
