Illustration by Dan Archer.
Expulsion of the Chagossian islanders from Diego Garcia.
Graphic reportage by Dan Archer.
The right to return is the disturbing true story of how the United Kingdom and the United States governments conspired to illegally evict thousands of Chagossian islanders from Diego Garcia in the 1960s to make way for a US military base. Based on reports and investigations by David Vine and John Pilger.
Dan Archer creates non-fictional, journalistic comics. He received his MFA in cartooning from the Center for Cartoon Studies in Vermont, United States. His work has been published by Bash magazine, The Other Side magazine, Memoir, Literary Journal, Penguin, Atlantic Books, Random House and Beauclair Books.
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Dan Archer is currently working on a book-length graphic reportage on the recent coup in Honduras and seeks individual sponsors for the project.
[...] other news, the Independent World Report is running my Diego Garcia comic in their latest issue, but you can check it out here. And [...]
[...] of the comic in Honduras, but more on that once it -finally- goes to print. The hard copy of the Independent World Report arrived, featuring my Chagos comic, as well as a moving photo journalism piece on African [...]