Praise for Making Nonfiction Comics

Full of sound advice and brimming over with energy, humor, and passion, this will make an indispensable addition to the bookshelves of comics creatives of all stripes.
Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

Making Nonfiction Comics is the best "how to" I've ever read about the form, and in my mind the only primer that exists for ethical graphic reporting.
Portland Mercury

Far from being a book with niche interest (aspiring and current cartoonists), this will inspire anyone with a vested interest in how creative nonfiction is made and why it so thoroughly captures our limited attention.
Booklist, starred review

It is absolutely essential reading, claiming a spot next to Understanding Comics on everyone's shelves.

About the Authors

Sarah “Shay” Mirk (she/they) is a graphic journalist, editor, and teacher. She is the author of Guantanamo Voices (Abrams ComicArts, 2020), which received a starred Kirkus review and was named a Best Book of 2020 by the New York Times. They were a contributing editor at graphic journalism website the Nib, where they wrote and edited nonfiction comics, including Be Gay Do Comics, which won the 2020 Ignatz for Best Anthology. They also cowrote the investigative comics series In/Vulnerable, illustrated by Thi Bui, which won an RFK Human Rights Award for Journalism in 2021. She resides in Portland, Oregon. Eleri Harris (she/her) is an Eisner Award–winning cartoonist, journalist and editor working on Ngunnawal and Ngambri country in Canberra, Australia. For a decade she was features editor at the Nib, where her work received an Eisner Award, two Ignatz Awards, a Ringo Award, and two Comic Art Awards of Australia. Eleri is the author of the children’s book A Loo of One’s Own: The Mostly True Story of Australia’s First Female Parliamentarians (Allen & Unwin 2025). She loves drawing tiny pictures in her studio at Gorman House Arts Centre, nerding out over fancy drawings and building sweet comics communities.

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