EDITOR'S NOTE: This weekend, Seattle's Fantagraphics Books is celebrating the release of the collected "Palestine," Joe Sacco's remarkable comic book documenting that profoundly violent war zone after ...
When cartoonist Joe Sacco first published Palestine a little more than 30 years ago, most people were indifferent. The nonfiction graphic novel was part comic book, part memoir of his journeys through ...
The Real News Network: Joe Sacco, author of ‘Footnotes in Gaza,’ on journalism and Palestine
Few journalists can be credited with as innovative and impactful a career as Joe Sacco, whose graphic novel-style reportage from his coverage of Palestine and Bosnia broke down barriers of genre to ...
Publishers Weekly: Fantagraphics to Crash New Joe Sacco Graphic Novel on Palestine
Joe Sacco is a Maltese-American cartoonist and journalist. He is best known for his comics journalism, in particular in the books Palestine (1996) and Footnotes in Gaza (2009), on Israeli–Palestinian ...
Comic artist Joe Sacco’s work has reached millions of readers for the past thirty years or so because his descriptions of wartime scenes, from Gaza and the West Bank to the Balkans, have so ...
bleedingcool: Art Spiegelman And Joe Sacco Working Together On New Comic About Gaza
Art Spiegelman And Joe Sacco Working Together On New Comic About Gaza
In the winter of 1991, around the time of the first intifada, Joe Sacco, then a young cartoonist and journalist, arrived in Gaza with no particular aim except “to see what’s going on”. He suspected ...
The region has religious significance. The ongoing Israeli–Palestinian conflict dates back to the rise of the Zionist movement, supported by the United Kingdom during World War I. The war saw Britain occupying Palestine from the Ottoman Empire, where it set up Mandatory Palestine under the auspices of the League of Nations.