The Center for Cartoon Studies alum Dan Archer ′08 to speak on transmedia storytelling at the Woodstock Digital Media Festival, Friday October 16.
Dan Archer is a graphic journalist who uses comics and immersive storytelling to report on human rights issues in situations where video or photographic equipment is inappropriate or, at worst, traumatic for those involved.
Archer is a graduate of The Center for Cartoon Studies, was a 2014-2015 RJI Fellow and a 2011 Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University, where he also taught nonfiction graphic novel writing from 2008 to 2014. His current work explores the crossover of interactive comics with transmedia storytelling and virtual reality. Archer’s work has been published by the BBC, CBC, Vice magazine, Fusion, San Francisco Public Press, American Public Media, Truthout and PBS.
Read more about Dan’s work and the Woodstock Digital Media Festival in Seven Days!
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