Трансмедіальні наративи коміксової журналістики: світовий та український досвід
Continuing the research of the world and Ukrainian documentary comics, this article presents comics journalism in the context of theoretical approaches, genre and thematic definitions and characteristics. Comics journalism is considered as an umbrella term, allowing to combine interactive comics-reporting, caricature, patch and graphic novel into a single space of graphic storytelling. The transmediality of the comics, generated by the visualcentricity of the modern world and the tendency to mix different forms and styles, provides journalistic materials with empathetic emotionality, intertextuality and polymodality. However, traditional journalistic standards are not refuted, their meaning are motivated by new information challenges and technological capabilities of contemporary graphic art. Compliance with the requirements of objectivity and credibility of comics journalists was the decisive and most debatable issue. Based on visual authentication strategies (according to W. Weber and H.-M. Rall), the research features the Ukrainian-themed materials on global comics platforms, newspapers and national content of Ukrainian comic journalism. The latter is represented by the certain projects of newspapers, news sites, blogs, cycles of graphic stories on social issues, graphic novels and comic books. Despite the involvement of the Ukrainian information space in the alternative forms of presenting relevant social and political material, the national media, mass authors and public initiatives do not appeal to comic journalism in practice.