Author: Joyce Rice

Joyce Rice is a cartoonist and game designer with a focus in journalism and education. She cofounded Symbolia, was a Knight Fellow at the American University Game Lab, and teaches digital comics at the California College of the Arts. She’s spoken about media innovation at SXSW, Game Developer’s Conference, and on the Verge’s Top Shelf, and she's worked with the fine folks at Vox Media, Showtime, and American Public Media to produce powerful stories. She rides bikes and sleep in Chicago.

A Once-in-a-Century Pandemic

by Joyce Rice

Posted on April 13, 2020April 27, 2020

We’re repeating a lot of the same mistakes from the 1918 “Spanish Flu” H1N1 outbreak.

Can America Fix Its Housing Crisis?

by Joyce Rice

Posted on July 8, 2019July 15, 2020

Racist policies and unfair market forces have created a cruel environment for renters.

Americans Are Drowning in Debt

by Joyce Rice

Posted on February 18, 2019April 17, 2020

We live with it. We die with it. And we’re told it’s our fault.

A Brief History of Folsom Prison

by Joyce Rice

Posted on July 23, 2018

California’s second penitentiary defined American incarceration for more than a century. And no figure has been more closely tied to it than Johnny Cash.