Graphic Times

Elizabeth Spiers, editor-in-chief of mediabistro.com, muses about emerging trends in media in What Would Kinsley Do? My response to No. 6: Aaaw, God! News comics?

6. The Graphic Newspaper. If Editor & Publisher has taught us anything it's that the kids aren't reading newspapers these days. They have too many other distractions. (The less optimistic would say they have no attention span.) At the same time, they are reading other things, and graphic novels, for example, have become more mainstream. The prototype: journalism in graphic form. Joe Sacco's Safe Area Gorazde, Art Spiegelman's Maus are two classic examples of graphic journalism done well. Perhaps fixing the youth readership problem is just a matter of packaging.

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