'What is Comics Journalism ' and 'Why is the author not dead at all?' Because literature and
journalism deal differently with authorship and author this work renegotiates these concepts.
It analyzes the author's importance in comics journalism especially concerning the
verification and authentication of the production process. This study gives a broad and
extensive overview of the various forms of contemporary comics journalism and argues that
authorship in comics journalism can only be adequately understood by considering the author
both on the textual and extratextual level.
