We chose to cover the political/news cartoon website, The Nib.
The Nib posts "political cartoons, journalism, essays and memoir about what is going down in the world, all in comics form,". Most of their daily content is political satire, like typical newspaper cartoons, but they also allow anyone to pitch to them and create content.
Every article on the site is in cartoon format, making the content visually interesting for the reader.
[Article: Want a New Emoji? Good Luck.]
The website relies a lot on social media to advertise their content, as the content serves as it's own advertisement.
The layout of the site is mostly one column, centred, splitting into two further down the homepage to show off older articles. It is image heavy, naturally, allowing the articles to speak for themselves. This allows the comics to be read in a continuous stream, but doesn't create any sort of hierarchy of information.
The sidebar menu is large and clear, but overlaps with the content which is slightly annoying. This is better on the mobile version, which is largely the same as the desktop site, but the menu takes up the whole screen when open, avoiding the overlap issue. The mobile site also has a scrolling header, allowing easy access to the menu and homepage.
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