Story by Darryl Holliday // Illustrated by Erik Nelson Rodriguez.

We consider it a sort of genre-bending — journalistic reporting with comic books.

Graphic journalism.

Our first story follows one Chicago woman through her marriage at the Cook County courthouse to her fiancé, an inmate at the county jail who will eventually be tried for first-degree murder.

All illustrations and narrative are pulled from a flow of events during the 2011 annual Department of Corrections mass wedding ceremonies. All of the words spoken by people in this story are actual words spoken by actual people.

Everything else is up for interpretation.

Originally published on Gapers Block Sept. 28, 2011