martha park

comics and graphic essays

Selections from a 9-panel explainer comic about renewable energy, transmission lines, and power outages, made for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). Click here to view PDF version.

Collaborative comic written by Austyn Gaffney and published in Grist and The Bitter Southerner with support from the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.

Collaborative comic written by Austyn Gaffney and published in The Guardian with support from the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.

Graphic essay, “Cast in Concrete,” published by Oxford American.

Three-page comic titled “Ordinary Time,” published in Storyboard Magazine.

“To Save a Town ‘By the Grace of God’: The Unfulfilled Promise of Cairo, Illinois” published in The Atlantic CityLab (now Bloomberg)

“Even the Dead Could Not Stay: An Illustrated History of Urban Renewal in Roanoke, Virginia” published in the Atlantic CityLab (now Bloomberg)

“Portrait of a Vacant Lot” on the spaces left behind Urban Renewal in Roanoke, Virginia. Published in Ecotone Magazine.

“Consolation Puppies,” a collaborative graphic essay written by Amy Butcher and illustrated by Martha Park. Published in Granta Magazine.

“Consolation Puppies,” a collaborative graphic essay written by Amy Butcher and illustrated by Martha Park. Published in Granta Magazine.

“In Memphis, An Unfair Future: The Final Days of Foote Homes” published in the Atlantic CityLab (now Bloomberg)

“In Memphis, An Unfair Future: The Final Days of Foote Homes” published in the Atlantic CityLab (now Bloomberg)

“Giving a Memphis Hero the Recognition He Deserves” published in The Atlantic CityLab (now Bloomberg)

“Giving a Memphis Hero the Recognition He Deserves” published in The Atlantic CityLab (now Bloomberg)

Comic about the opening scene of Jim Jarmusch’s “Mystery Train,” for Wig-Wag Magazine.

Comic about the opening scene of Jim Jarmusch’s “Mystery Train,” for Wig-Wag Magazine.