Comics journalism, or
Graphic journalism, is a form of
journalism that covers news or non-fiction events using the framework of
comics – a combination of words and drawn images. Although visual narrative storytelling has existed for thousands of years, the use of the comics medium to cover real-life events for news organizations, publications or publishers (in graphic novel format) is currently at an all-time peak. Historically, pictorial representation (typically engravings) of news events were commonly used before the proliferation of photography in publications such as
The Illustrated London News and
Harper's Magazine.