Frames and Framing in Documentary Comics

Frames and Framing in Documentary Comics explores how graphic narrativesreframe global crises while also interrogating practices of fact-finding. An analogprint phenomenon in an era shaped by digitalization, documentary comicsformulates a distinct counterapproach to conventional journalism. In what waysare 'facts' being presented and framed? What is documentary honesty in a worldof fake news and post-truth politics? How can the stories of marginalized peoplesand neglected crises be told? The author investigates documentary comics inits unique relationship to framing: graphic narratives are essentially shaped bya reciprocal relationship between the manifest frames on the page and theattention to the cognitive frames that they generate. To account for both thetextuality of comics and its strategic use as rhetoric, the author combines theoriesof framing analysis and cognitive narratology with comics studiesand its attentiontoward the medium's visual frames.