On Kickstarter, Visual Journalism Is Alive And Well

Progressive site Truthout looks at the growing movement of comic book/graphic novel writers and cartoonists tackling journalism.

Comics journalist Dan Archer has drawn comics about the 2009 Honduran coup and the 2007 Nisoor Square shootings. Joe Sacco’s “Palestine,” based on two months of on-the-ground reporting, is considered a seminal work of comics journalism.

But recently, there’s been a new way of doing comics journalism that doesn’t require a book deal.

Cartoonists Ted Rall and Matt Bors traveled to Afghanistan in 2010 on $25,000

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