In Germany comics journalism is not really established.
This combination in which comics are a serious medium,
giving you news and that you learn from,
that's relatively new in Germany.
So it's a really good idea to ask:
What do we need?
We need journalists and we need comic artists.
Put them together.
As a journalist the most interesting part is
that you need to find a new form.
A new mode of telling stories in images
combined with text.
Try to make everything more precise,
think visually and find a new mode of telling
that could be interesting for a larger public.
Most of the artists usually work with their own material,
like their own thoughts and ideas.
Here they have to deal with material
that comes from somebody else.
They have to adapt and find ways to change their style
in order to make a journalistic work.
The topic of the reportages that they're doing
is "migration" in a very large sense.
All types of migration,
all types of influences this can have on your life.
We wanted to have a very big mix of different backgrounds
to make sure that the topics would be new
and the artistic approaches would not be the ones
that you normally see.
I think it's very innovative and creative
to come up with ideas like this
and to transform human stories into funny comics.
Working together so closely,
not in a way (where I would say):
"Here's the finished story, put some pictures to it. I'm gone!"
This is now the opposite.
Text and images need to complete each other,
but not repeat each other.
We took a long time to come up with a good concept for the story.
I would recommend this workshop.
What was interesting for me in this workshop
was to realise that there are so many different examples
of how comics can really add something to a journalistic piece.
For example, the piece I made would be impossible on TV
because we can't film this kind of situation.
In written form it might be a bit boring.
On the radio you would not have recorded that.
Actually it happened that comics were the best option
for this particular story.
It opened a lot of potential
that has to be explored and explored
because it's quite a new relationship between comics and journalism.
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