Creating a Journalistic True-Crime Comic

Student: Veronika Bilous

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Educational Programme: Journalism (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 9

Year of Graduation: 2024

"Sang-froid: the Story of Jack Unterweger" is a project in the form of a journalistic comic book in the true-crime genre, which tells the real story of the Austrian serial killer Jack Unterweger, he strangled women who worked in the sex industry in the 1990s in Austria and the USA. Through the project, the possibilities of developing the true-crime genre in a graphic format, which has recently been gaining popularity among consumers, are analyzed, as well as the scope of understanding what could be considered as a journalistic material in the modern world of the dominance of fiction narratives.

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