Quick on the draw: A Wknd interview with comic journalist Dan Archer

He draws news stories of homelessness, police brutality, incarceration. His first graphic novel is now out, set amid human-trafficking victims in Nepal.

It was a stint of jury duty at the Old Bailey, London’s oldest criminal court, that first convinced Dan Archer to make the switch to comics journalism.

In some of Archer’s VR and AR comics, the viewer walks through a re-enactment as it unfolds. This allows for multiple perspectives, he says. ‘Which is a very important reminder that there is no one single truth.’ (Images courtesy Dan Archer / Voices from Nepal)

The jury experience itself was terrible, he says. But he did notice that while photography wasn’t allowed in the courtroom, sketching was. This was 15 years ago; he was in his 20s.

“That experience led me to the realisation that drawing could be a really powerful way to represent a story, and a