The Groundbreaking Honesty of Joe Sacco’s Comics Journalism His decades-long project of reportage in graphic form works like oral history—bearing witness to the historical traumas of his subjects. via The Nation: https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/joe-sacco-paying-land-review/ That honesty is a crucial part of Sacco’s decades-long project. Whether covering the lives of Palestinians in the occupied territories, Bosniaks and Serbs…
Exclusive: Joe Sacco’s The Great War, documentary on the creation of an extraordinary graphic history Joe Sacco is a spectacular political comics creator, and has earned a well-deserved reputation for his work on war and conflict with books on Sarajevo and Bosnia, Gaza and Palestine and other moder… via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2013/11/07/exclusive-joe-saccos-the-gr.html From “the heir…
‘They Planted Hatred in Our Hearts’ Joe Sacco’s account of mass killings of Palestinians in 1956 impressively combines graphic artistry and investigative reporting. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/books/review/Cockburn-t.html?partner=rss&emc=rss Joe Sacco will find readers for “Footnotes in Gaza” far into the future because of the unique format and style of his comic-book narrative. He stands alone as a reporter-cartoonist…
