What better way to bring information to the public than the judicious combination of words and pictures? Comics offer the ability to attract attention and focus it, while making a complex journalistic narrative both lively to read and, as studies have shown, easier for readers to comprehend. This panel offers historical and contemporary examples of the use of comics as a journalistic tool and shows how the wedding of comics and nonfiction reporting is a match made in media heaven. With
Susie Cagle,
Andy Warner (Cartoon Picayune),
Stan Mack (
Taxes, the Tea Party, and Those Revolting Rebels: A History in Comics of the American Revolution),
Ed Piskor (
WizzyWig),
Dan Carino (Cartoon Movement), and
Chris Butcher (The Beguiling.) Moderated by
PW Comics World co-editor
Calvin Reid.
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