Disaster Drawn: Visual Witness, Comics, and Documentary Form

In Disaster Drawn: Visual Witness, Comics, and Documentary Form, published by Harvard University Press in 2016, this single-issue comic explores how the medium of comics has been used to document and bear witness to historical disasters. The work examines the unique visual language of comics as a form of testimony, analyzing how artists translate trauma and catastrophe into sequential art. Associated with scholarly discourse on documentary practice, it matters for its formalist approach to understanding comics as a legitimate tool for historical record and ethical representation.