The Four Color Media Monitor

WCAX-3 covered this year's non-fiction comics festival in Burlington, the 2nd so far:

The topics covered by nonfiction comics can range from journalism to graphic medicine. Burlington Resident Romaney Granizo Mackenzie says she’s always been a fan of books, but she’d actually never read a nonfiction comic. And now, she’s a fan.[...]

Co-organizer Teppi Zuppo is excited that this genre is getting more recognition.

“We’re the only nonfiction comics book in the country, and it’s a really big genre. It’s growing and it needs this kind of focus,” Zuppo said.

Organizers of the nonfiction comic festival tell me there’s over 50 authors here. The day was filled with workshops as well as presentations. While people are immersing themselves in nonfiction comics Zuppo hopes people there share the message that there’s more to comics than cartoons.

“But also, just getting people to take comic seriously as like a real learning medium. Comics can really like break up that information in a way that makes it more accessible...Comics aren’t just for kids, comics aren’t just superheroes,” Zuppo said.

Of course not. But there's one crucial point that should be made: they can't be just leftist propaganda either, and anybody who exploits the medium for the sake of woke nonsense that's hurtful to people isn't doing comicdom a bit of good. The genre may be more recognized today, but on what exact grounds? If it's as a way for conveying leftist propaganda, then it hasn't been truly recognized at all.

So of course, one must wonder what exact kind of non-fiction comics are on exhibition at this festival? That's what they don't make clear here beyond at least 2 examples given. Do any right-wing cartoonists attend? That's certainly not clear here either. So how do we know this festival is something to be optimistic about?

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