ABSTRACT

Joe Sacco's comics journalism appears in popular venues as Time, The New York Times Magazine, and Harper's and Foreign Policy. Although issue incorporated in traditional fictional comics, it primarily remains a digital platform for non-fiction in comics form until it suspended publication in 2015. In short, comics published as journalism, memoir, and non-fiction have become an increasingly popular art form, available to anyone with non-fiction story to tell. This chapter introduces three professionals working in the field, who answer some of the same questions about what they do in different ways. It helps creators to tell such stories, but before anyone can start to draw a non-fiction comic, they must first define non-fiction. Thus, those who want to create non-fiction comics should have some idea of how to answer critic's questions about their chosen stories before they begin. The chapter examines the practices of leading creators of non-fiction comics like Josh Neufeld, Joe Sacco, Dan Archer, Marjane Satrapi, and others.