Graphic journalism (also known as comics journalism) is a genre that combines investigative journalism and comics covering news or nonfiction events using the framework of comics, a combination of words and drawn images. Typically, sources are actual people featured in each story, and word balloons are actual quotes. This hybrid form of communication has an immediate and visual language that effectively conveys information, emotions and atmospheres in situations where text alone would struggle.
In the past I have researched and published several investigative graphic journalism stories and several autobiographical stories that involve investigative reportage, whilst I have also been commissioned by magazines to report on current affairs using graphic journalism. My experiences in graphic journalism have informed my research and practice-based methodology of my more recent works, the graphic biographies Dryland, Tales of the Smiths, King, and Rebel Rebel.
