ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses creative visual techniques for nonfiction comics to consider that the creative artistic approach may be the most difficult to achieve. A creative artist focused on self-expression may simply be reacting to or capturing an event as it unfolds, without a grand plan, simply following his or her own individually developed aesthetic. The stories that succeed as comics journalism lean toward the feature side, but they may also contain elements of hard news, falling somewhere in between. Artists, designers, and illustrators may not find nonfiction stories in a different way from historians, journalists, or memoirists, but they may be motivated in some significantly different ways. The medium of comics as a tool to report, teach, or inform can be more greatly affected by style than other media. The goal of historians is to produce an accurate record of past events and provide an understanding of the contexts in which those events occurred.
