Description

Originally published on The Atavist as an “enhanced e-comic” via the platform’s immersive storytelling technology, including sound, music, video, and interactive graphics.

A collaboration between journalist Tori Marlan and Josh Neufeld, Stowaway traces the 12,000-mile journey of Fanuel, an orphan from the streets of Addis Ababa, across the world to the Americas. Along the way to the U.S., he encounters child traffickers, dangerous strangers, and border coyotes, searching for the only friend he has left.

Praise for Stowaway:

“The images, by artist Josh Neufeld, along with the additional layers of sound, animation, dynamic paging, and interactive web-based content, transform Fanuel’s tale from a passive script to the portrait of a real person in a real place. Furthermore, the use of interactive content incorporates the reader’s presence into the story.”
— The Rumpus

“… [a] harrowing tale . . . in an awesome, immersive, wonderfully illustrated format.”
— Gizmodo

… an engaging meld of investigative journalism and graphic illustration with just enough New Journalism panache to keep a reader interested. . . . [S]hould be a must-read for politicians of every stripe.”
— Brooklyn Rail