Comics journalism

I use comics to visualize first-person stories and explain complex concepts. See more.

A comic book illustration of a woman in between a family photograph and monument in Iran.

Confronting morality: Women under the Islamic Republic

A series of comic book panels of refugees attempting to cross from Turkey into Greece.

Trying to escape war and poverty, but finding a pandemic

An illustration Uyghur protesters carrying Turkish and Uyghur flags.

A Uyghur man’s journey from a Chinese prison to Turkey

A series of comic book panel illustrations.

For Mexican media, crime beat can be a killer

Editorial Illustrations

I've illustrated everything from abstract stories on the economy to practical how-to stories on exercise. See more.

The Afghan journalists who stayed (VOA)

Foreign wives of ISIS fighters sentenced to death in Iraq (VOA)

China Exodus (VOA)

Secondary Targets (VOA)

Dining out in St. Louis (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

Illustrating “Wild Pigeon,” an allegory of government repression (RFA)

Portraits

A collection of traditional and digital portraits. The images range from the abstract to the geometric, from caricatures to realism, using a variety of mediums and tools. See more.

Rustem Umerov (VOA)

Illustrated portrait of Madeleine Albright

Madeleine Albright (VOA)

Willi Dansgaard (VOA)

Illustrated portrait of Octavio Rojas Hernandez

Octavio Rojas Hernandez (VOA)

Kwity Paye (VOA)

Illustrated portrait of William Least Heat-Moon

William Least Heat-Moon (Vox Magazine)

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