Exhibit: Arantza Peña Popo’s Visual Journalism
April 11 - May 30
Comics journalism engages journalistic practices and cartooning techniques to explain true, current events in a visually engaging way.
Arantza Peña Popo first started her journalism career as a student at USC’s Annenberg School for Journalism. She later on went to work at NPR-Affiliated public radio station KPCC in Los Angeles and as a Story Art Fellow at Business Insider in New York. She has done comics journalism reporting for the Washington Post, LA Times, The Stranger Seattle, and Business Insider. She uses her comics journalism work to illuminate stories about queerness and belonging through the magical storytelling power of comics. See Peña Popo’s full color illustrations projected on the walls of JAM this month along with original art on display during open hours.
Attend a FREE zine workshop with the exhibiting artist on First Friday, May 2.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Arantza Peña Popo (they/she) is currently a Fellow at the Center for Cartoon Studies. She is an Igntaz-Award nominated cartoonist, illustrator and zinester who grew up in Atlanta Georgia. She’s also made several editorial illustrations for publications like the LA Times, New York Times, Washington Post, and had a short but wonderful stint as a New Yorker cartoonist. She’s been invited to show her work at multiple art book and comics fairs around the world in Berlin, Los Angeles, and Montreal. Her vibrant comics focus on queerness, isolation, mental instability and hazy boundaries of the inbetween.