Archer is a 2014 Reynolds Journalism Institute Fellow and was a 2011 Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University, where he also taught non-fiction graphic novel writing 2008-14. His current work explores the crossover of interactive comics with transmedia storytelling and virtual reality, one example of which was the virtual reality reconstruction of the Michael Brown shooting that occurred in Ferguson, Missouri in August 2014. His work has been published by the BBC, CBC, Vice magazine, Fusion, San Francisco Public Press, American Public Media, Truthout and PBS among others.