Comics journalism

Comics journalism is reporting on events, or interviewing people, in comics form. From 2007-2010 I was one of the first comic artists in The Netherlands to publish a monthly comic report in newspaper Trouw, often on religious or philosophical events and topics:

Click on the picture to see the reports I drew about
Dzogchen Rinpoche, Magic Mushrooms and Achill’s Secret Garden

When I was Comic Artist Laureate during 2017-2020, I employed this form regularly as a way of interviewing people.

In 2020 kids comics magazine Jump was launched, and I developed my comic interviews to include screenshots from the Zoom-interviews the editors did with several well-known writers:

Click to read the interviews with
John Flanagan, Andy Griffiths and Gary Northfield

© Margreet de Heer 2024