Comics Journalism

I have been working with comics journalism for more than 15 years. In the meantime, I organized events on this topic, I wrote texts for newspapers and magazines, I published articles, I did academic research, I developed my own comics reportages (with different artists) … I even wrote a doctoral thesis that became a book. In other words, comics journalism is my major speciality! By the way, I defend the idea that comics journalism should not be considered a genre, but an area of journalism as broad as radio journalism, web journalism or TV journalism. Working with comics journalism, therefore, means to develop journalistic pieces using the possibilities of the comics language. Within this area, it is possible to find several genres of journalism with their specific forms, such as interviews, reviews, news, reports, and so on. In this section of the site, I will not only talk about my own work with journalistic comics, but I will also spread knowledge about this area of journalism. It will be a space of reference, constantly updated.

Book: “Pequeno Manual da Reportagem em Quadrinhos”

A handbook for the practice of journalistic comics (in Portuguese).

Comics journalism institutions worldwide

List of institutional agents working in the field of comics journalism #comicsjournalismaroundtheworld

Comics reporters around the world

List of key players in the global comics journalism scene. #comicsjournalismaroundtheworld

Book : “Die Comicreportage”

A study about comics journalism (in German).

Teaching journalism: “Revista ARCO”

Supervision of students in the production of comics journalism pieces (in Portuguese).

Paper : “Notes on the field of comics journalism and the genre of the reportage”

Chapter written for academic book on comics journalism (in Portuguese).

Comics reportage: “Versteckt in Mitte”

Journalistic comic about the gentrification process in Berlin (in German).

Comics reportage: “Vor Gittern”

Journalistic comic about alternatives to prison system (in German).

Alexandra Ruegler: “Postcard from South Dakota”

Reportage for the Italian magazine Internazionale. #comicsjournalismaroundtheworld

Comics reportage: “Der freie Platz”

Journalistic comic about a refugee soccer team.

Paper: “Por uma estética jornalística da pobreza”

Thoughts on comics journalism for the international journal "Sur le journalisme" (in Portuguese).

Comics reportage: “So Close, Faraway!”

Interactive journalistic comic about homelessness.

Event organization: “I and II EIJQ”

International Meeting of Comics Journalism with the Goethe-Institute (Brazil).

Comics reportage: “Inside the Favelas”

Journalistic comic about the slums of Rio de Janeiro.

Reportage: “Os filhos de Joe Sacco”

An overview about a new generation of reporters working with comics journalism (in Portuguese).

Comics reportage: “Juventude: em tempo de crescer”

Journalistic comic about a decaying soccer club in southern Brazil (in Portuguese).