How a prize-winning cartoonist brings hand-drawn comics to the web
TL;DR
American journalist Danny Fenster, jailed in Myanmar's 2021 coup, collaborated with cartoonist Amy Kurzweil on an interactive comic about his imprisonment. The project explores storytelling and illustration in long-form digital media.
Tags
Jailed during the 2021 coup in Myanmar, American journalist Danny Fenster spent six months as a political prisoner. For much of his incarceration he battled boredom and fear, subsisting on meditation and podcasts on an SD card smuggled in by mail, sent by his girlfriend, Juliana.
Now, nearly five years after his release, he collaborated with his cousin Amy Kurzweil, a celebrated New Yorker cartoonist and graphic memoirist, on a long-form interactive comic for The Verge about his imprisonment. I chatted via email with Kurzweil about her role as an illustrator and storyteller in this ambitious long-form project, the responsibilities inherent …