Pascal Grellety Bosviel’s mixed-media record of half a century of aid work, Toute une vie d’humanitaire: 50 ans de terrain d’un médecin-carnettiste (2013). Their win is part of a growing trend toward the recognition of the value of using graphic narratives for humanitarian purposes, one which includes a broad variety of texts: memoirs which mix personal narrative, social context, and testimony like Marjane Satrapi’s two-part series Persepolis (2000 2004) and Guy Delisle’s conflict zone travelogues ( 2007, 2008, 2012) works of graphic journalism, including Joe Sacco’s longform work on Bosnia and Palestine ( 2000, 2001) and Molly Crabapple’s Guantanamo reporting ( 2013) books and pamphlets with pedagogic and activist mandates produced by non-profit organizations like Positive Negatives, whose mandate is human rights advocacy through graphic narrative by turning personal testimony about social and humanitarian issues into pamphlets, posters, and educational comics and finally, works produced alongside humanitarian missions like Dr. When Jake Halpern and Michael Sloan won the Pulitzer for editorial cartooning in 2018 for their New York Times serial, ‘Welcome to the New World’ (Halpern and Sloan 2017), it was the first time a longform graphic narrative was recognized by the committee under the category of journalism.
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