Pressed is a comic commentary on the media. Written and drawn by a reporter currently embedded inside a newspaper.
Editor Stan Black
The frazzled editor is constantly disheveled, understaffed and on deadline in a post-Internet world.
Correspondent Rory Finn
After the newspaper closes its last foreign bureau during cutbacks, the former war correspondent returns home to cover the “pet stories and bake sale” beat.
Easily offended, he has maxed out on his quota of letters to the editor and often rails against the “elitist mainstream media” on his blog called “The Truth.”
Reporter Rosa Diaz
She gets too involved with the people she interviews and has a cynical streak.
Web Guru Trey Cho
Just out of college, he’s trying to bring the newspaper relic into the blogosphere.
Photographer Preston Riggs
He’s the voice of reason in the newsroom.
Mayor Windbagg
He likes to see himself in print, but hates talking to reporters, especially when he puts his foot in his mouth.
AUTHOR
Ryan Pagelow is currently embedded deep inside a newspaper as a reporter in Illinois. He has drawn comic strips for newspapers for about a decade. His scripts and drawings have appeared in Mad magazine and he received the Charles Schulz National College Cartoonist Award. His articles have also appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times, National Geographic Traveler, Buenos Aires Herald in Argentina and Colors magazine in Italy.
He lives in Chicago.
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