“Comics are immediately accessible and relatable to a lot of people in a way that, curiously, film or written journalism might not be,” said illustrator Lindsay Pollock, who has worked on a number of graphic journalism projects, in a recent Journalism.co.uk podcast. “And people really relate to cartoon characters, from childhood basically. Obviously there’s a reason why comics and cartoons are so popular and it is precisely because they touch something in people.”
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