Transcript Blow Up the Funny Pages: Why Comics Make for Powerful Journalism #ONA12COMICS With @erinpolgreen @archcomix @susie_c & @wendymac.

Blow Up the Funny Pages:
Why Comics Make for Powerful
Journalism
#ONA12COMICS
With @erinpolgreen @archcomix @susie_c &
@wendymac
Why does comics journalism
matter?
– Immersive and Experiential
– Primed for Sharing
– Readers stick with it—and respond!
– Creative revenue stream
– Two words: Lotsa. Traffic.
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Where is it?
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The Atavist
Campus Progress
Cartoon Movement
Cartoon Picayune
Dallas Morning News
Gaper’s Block
Graphic Journos
IllusPress.com
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Seattle Times
SMITH Magazine
The American Prospect
The Awl
The Oregonian
The Oxford American
Truthout.org
The Rumpus
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Features
“I must have heard
from every single
person from Montana
who had ever
relocated to Oregon,
some of whom had
been students of the
park ranger I'd
included in the comic.”
—Jen Sorenson
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Interviews
• Comics can lower the barrier between you
and your subject.
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Interviews
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Access
– Art = access
– Goes where recording devices cannot
– Humanizes complicated stories
– Says more in one image than a 10,000 word
essay.
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Under Cover
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Thanks!
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With @erinpolgreen @archcomix
@susie_c & @wendymac