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Illustrated Documentary on San Francisco’s 6th Street

Posted on 05/11/2011 by WendyMac

Recently I spent a few weeks in San Francisco’s 6th/Mission and 5th/Mission neighborhoods, drawing and interviewing the people who live and work there.  6th is known for its SROs, poverty and crime. 5th is known for being the location of the SF Chronicle and new tech ventures. The resulting illustrated documentary published in The Rumpus tells the story of the disparate communities through drawings and the subjects own words. 

This piece is also on display as an installation at Intersection for the Arts.

A couple images from the piece are below.  You can see the whole story here.


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Biographical Comic on Cynthia Heimel

Posted on 01/11/2011 by Jen Sorensen

Now that the exclusivity period has expired, I can share a biographical comic I drew earlier this year for Bitch Magazine about the great humor writer Cynthia Heimel. Heimel had quite the influence on me while I was in college, and it was a thrill to be able to interview her for the piece.

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Behind the Scenes of the Interactive Nisoor Square Comic

Posted on 27/06/2011 by Dan Archer

After months of planning, research, inking and programming, my latest piece of comics journalism launched last Monday over at Cartoon Movement – check it out here. The first feature piece of its kind, it recreated the tragic events of the Nisoor square shootings of September 2007 in Baghdad, Iraq along an interactive timeline. My goal was to recreate the chaos, contrasting perspectives and minute-by-minute unfolding of the incident, to truly put readers in the shoes of the civilians and Blackwater (US contractor) operatives involved. What I’m going to do in this piece is give you a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the whys and hows behind it, as well as my prediction (for what it’s worth) of where I think online comics journalism is headed.

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Interview: Gabi Campanario at the Seattle Times

Posted on 19/06/2011 by Susie Cagle

These past couple weeks I was in France, where drawn journalism appears regularly in large newspapers across the country. As a nation, France is way ahead of the US in terms of love for les dessins, but if Gabi Campanario‘s newspaper work is any indication, that might soon change. (Or maybe I’m just feeling optimistic today…)

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Dan Archer’s Stanford Journalism Talk

Posted on 03/06/2011 by Susie Cagle

Here’s Graphic Journo Dan Archer talking about how he uses illustration and graphics in his non-fiction comic narratives to an audience at Stanford.

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The Future of Journalism is Comics…Now with Video

Posted on 19/05/2011 by Erin Polgreen


The Future of Journalism is Comics

Here’s video from the panel on graphic journalism at NCMR 2011. Click play to get an overview of what the graphic journalism landscape looks like, thrill to the protester who lamely rickrolls the Q+A, and see the livedrawing that our graphic journalists created during the session.

Panelists include (in alphabetical order): Matt Bors, Susie Cagle, Sarah Jaffe, Erin Polgreen, and Ron Wimberly.

Very special thanks to Candace and Tim at Free Press who supported the development of this panel.

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