Some links to some great short works of graphic non-fiction that are available to read online in full.
This is of course not a complete list! For more, check out this amazing index put together by Lukas Plank: http://comicsjournalism.net
Traditional Reporting:
The journey of Syrian refugees by boat and land to Europe, reported by Alia Malek, illustrated by Josh Neufeld: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/spa/ltexs0t2hep9pzk/Exports/fp_comic/fp_comic.html
Syria’s climate conflict, written by Audry Quinn, drawn by Jackie Roche: http://symboliamag.tumblr.com/post/87016370523/yearsoflivingdangerously-this
Andy Warner on legal weed: http://fusion.net/story/141906/this-is-what-i-grew-up-dreaming-to-do-a-marijuana-grower-gets-ready-for-legal-weed/
Susie Cagle on homelessness solutions: https://aeon.co/essays/best-way-to-solve-homelessness-give-people-homes
Susie Cagle on environmental changes and the Salton Sea: http://grist.org/slideshow/changes-on-the-horizon-for-californias-troubled-salton-sea/
Kazimir Lee Iskander on transgender women in Malaysia: http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2015/08/07/transgender_in_malaysia_cartoon_about_the_jempol_arrests.html
Gary Rivlin and Jackie Roche on a man’s effort to rebuild his life after hurricane Katrina: https://thenib.com/the-corner-store-after-katrina-abf1d42c6421#.r148r3boc
Lauren Weinstein on caregivers of Alzheimers patients: http://nautil.us/issue/31/stress/invisible-patients-a-caregivers-story
Darryl Holliday and Jamie Hibdon on homelessness in Chicago: http://www.citylab.com/housing/2014/10/illustrated-journalism-drawing-attention-to-chicagos-anti-homeless-measures-with-compartment-13/381954/
Me (Sarah Glidden) on Iraqi refugees in pre-war Syria: http://sarahglidden.com/the-waiting-room-3/
Experiential/on the scene:
Sam Wallman on European detention centers: http://www.sbs.com.au/news/feature/brick-brick-comic-eastern-europes-border-crisis
Kate Evans on Calais migrant camp: http://www.cartoonkate.co.uk/threads-the-calais-cartoon/
Wendy MacNaughton on the San Francisco Public Library: http://wendymacnaughton.com/#portfolio#journalism01
And on the San Francisco Farmer’s Market: http://wendymacnaughton.com/#portfolio#farmer
Sophie Yanow interviews New Hampshire primary voters: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/09/sketches-from-new-hampshire-meeting-the-voters
Ron Wimberly on New Orleans ten years after the flood: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/08/24/ten-years-after-comic-strip-ronald-wimberly
Chevelin Pierre and Pharès Jerome on post-earthquake Haiti: http://www.cartoonmovement.com/comic/29
Lisa Hanawalt at the New York Toy Fair: http://thehairpin.com/2012/04/the-toy-fair/
Me (Sarah Glidden) on Occupy Miami: http://sarahglidden.com/occupy-miami/
Autobiographical:
Lauren Weinstein on being the potential carrier of a genetic disorder: http://nautil.us/blog/carriers-a-webcomic-on-health-luck-and-life
Ron Wimberly on race in comics: https://thenib.com/lighten-up-4f7f96ca8a7e#.ssq8fycca
Adam Bessie and Josh Neufeld on Adam living with a brain tumor: http://www.psmag.com/health-and-behavior/scanner-constantly
Rebecca Roher on the changes in the body during and after pregnancy: https://thenib.com/mom-body-51fde2bc01f#.pmnh5afc0
Eroyn Franklin on struggling with the scandal of Bikram yoga: https://thenib.com/bikram-addict-242333de3483#.woeek3e1r
Portraits:
Darryl Holliday and E.N. Rodriguez on the mother of a shooting victim in Chicago: http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/grand-crossing-how-to-survive-shooting/Content?oid=11598405
Darryl Holliday on a paralyzed survivor of a shooting: https://thenib.com/life-after-the-second-set-2e2b6e4434dd#.598wv35eg
Benjamin Dix on Somalian refugees resettled in Europe: https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/multimedia/meet-the-somalis
Lisa Hanawalt on Wylie Dufresne: http://www.lisahanawalt.com/comics#/wd-50/
History and Current Events Explained:
Andy Warner on Syria: https://medium.com/@andycomics/a-fragile-future-e45f939f52a#.er846e36p
Andy Warner on the invention of the Slinky: https://backchannel.com/how-a-naval-engineer-turned-a-torsion-spring-into-the-slinky-977877664f2d
Andy Warner on 100 years of conflict in Iraq: https://thenib.com/shattered-state-a-history-of-conflict-in-iraq-96a891a1f57f#.j9o4hy429
Julia Wertz on the history of street cleaning in New York City: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-n-y-c-mystery-history-hour-street-cleaning
Julia Wertz on the World’s Fair: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-n-y-c-mystery-history-hour-after-the-new-york-worlds-fair
Alec Longstreth on the history of the Dvorak typing method: http://www.dvzine.org/zine/01-toc.html
Interactive/Multimedia:
Wendy MacNaughton and Amy Standen on winemaking (includes atmospheric audio): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKtpXHWdkEk
Dan Archer on the Nisoor Square Blackwater shootings: http://www.cartoonmovement.com/icomic/11
Augusto Paim, Bruno Ortiz and Mauricio Piccini on the life of a homeless man in Brazil: http://www.cartoonmovement.com/icomic/54
Various artists and writers on a “choose your own adventure” journey of a Syrian refugee: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-32057601
Not comics journalism but relevant: Natt Hynh adapts Nam Le’s “The Boat” as an interactive comic: http://www.sbs.com.au/theboat/
An interesting use of Instagram for displaying comics journalism from Wendy Macnaughton https://www.instagram.com/p/BSbfJYegEUw/
Comics Journalism Specific Websites/Magazines:
Drawing the Times: http://drawingthetimes.com/
Comics Journalism Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/352952334843869/
Symbolia (now defunct) http://symboliamag.tumblr.com/
The Nib (now moving to First Look) https://thenib.com/
Cartoon Movement: http://www.cartoonmovement.com
Just saying: I have edited/produced a DOZEN nonfiction comic art books since 2005, beginning with WOBBLIES!, also the Zinn adaptation that has sold 75,000, biographies of Che, Isadora Duncan, Emma Goldman and most recently, Rosa Luxemburg. Not to mention an adaptation of Studs Terkel. Not to mention SDS and THE BEATS and BOHEMIANS and YIDDISHKEIT. What must I do to reach your list, I wonder. No harm done, of course.