Comics Journalism



The New York Times doesn't do this very often, but when they do, it's worth noting.

Poynter.org reports:

The Times has run comics before -- in The New York Times Magazine , for instance, or as "op art" on the Op-Ed page. But I hadn't seen any in the news pages before. What was this thing? And who was responsible for it?

Campbell Robertson is a clerk on the Metro desk at the Times . A 1998 Georgetown grad, he drew a cartoon for The Hoya and wrote his senior thesis as -- get ready for it -- a comic book.

But he didn't come to the Times burning with the desire to get a funny drawing into the Metro section. Rather, his return to sequential art came about by chance.

Robertson had written some stories for Times Talk , the paper's internal newsletter. The newsletter's editor, Eden Lipson, heard about his paneled past, and she said, why not do a comic for us?

So he did

Then Anne Cronin, an editor at the Times , saw his work in Times Talk , and she said, why not do a comic for the Metro section?

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So he did!

We hope to see more of this in the NYTimes.

Posted: Fri - November 21, 2003 at 02:03 AM        

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