Comic journalism

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The comic journalism puts Comics one for presentation of events or situations and attacks get back on a popular form of presentation.

Definition and characteristics

Comic journalism is a journalistic genre between image and text. Stories, mostly reports, are told with pictures and usually a few words. Nyberg's comic journalism has three characteristics: seriousness, nonfictionality and the processing of current events. The central criterion is nonfictionality: "Like any other form of journalism, comic journalism is based on facts and research."

distribution

One of the most famous comic journalists is the native Maltese Joe Sacco , who is sometimes referred to as the founder of comic journalism. His comic reports are typical of him. His best known works include Palestine (1996) and Safe Area Gorazde (2000). Patrick Chappatte is one of the better-known representatives of the genre , who has drawn for NZZ am Sonntag , Le Temps and the International New York Times , among others . He primarily addresses war scenarios, including in his work Death in the Field (2011). In the German-speaking countries, comic journalism is hardly widespread. One of the few examples is the volume Weisse Wölfe - A graphic report on right-wing terror (2015) by David Schraven and Jan Feindt .

criticism

The biggest criticism of comic journalism is "its inherently subjective view in a very objectivity-conscious field". The traditional understanding of journalism, according to which objectivity is a central value in reporting, is therefore challenged by comic journalism.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Amy Kiste Nyberg: Theorizing Comics Journalism , in: International Journal of Comic Art , 2006, Vol. 8 (2), pp. 98-112.
  2. ↑ Florian Hohmann, Filiz Erkal: Comics Journalism , in: Deutscher Fachjournalisten-Verband (Ed.): Journalistische Genres , UVK-Verlag, Konstanz 2016, pp. 273–284.
  3. ↑ Naomi Gregoris: The figurehead of comic reportage ; http://www.deutschlandradiokultur.de/joe-sacco-die-galionsfigur-der-comic-reportage.2156.de.html?dram:article_id=351664
  4. ↑ Florian Hohmann, Filiz Erkal: Comics Journalism , in: Deutscher Fachjournalisten-Verband (Ed.): Journalistische Genres , UVK-Verlag, Konstanz 2016, p. 282.