In late l991 and early 1992, at the time of the first Intifada, Joe Sacco spent two months with the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, travelling and taking notes. Upon returning to the United States he started writing and drawing Palestine, which combines the techniques of eyewitness rep[...]
Rafah, a town at the southernmost tip of the Gaza Strip, is a squalid place. Raw concrete buildings front rubbish-strewn alleys. The narrow streets are crowded with young children and unemployed men. Situated on the border with Egypt, swaths of Rafah have been reduced to rubble. Rafah is today and h[...]
Sacco paved the way for Palestine with his powerful triptych on modern war and its innocent victims, originally published in his comic Yahoo and collected here: 'When Good Bombs Happen to Bad People' chronicles the effect of aerial warfare on civilians, from Germany and Japan in World War II to Liby[...]
In The Fixer Joe Sacco returns to Bosnia, the setting for his first masterpiece, Safe Area Gorazde. In 2001 he went back to Sarajevo to meet up with his old 'fixer', an army veteran called Neven who, for the right price, could arrange anything for the visiting journalist. Sacco gradually realized th[...]
In late 1995 and early 1996, cartoonist/reporter Joe Sacco travelled four times to Gorazde, a UN-designated safe area during the Bosnian War, which had teetered on the brink of obliteration for three and a half years. Still surrounded by Bosnian Serb forces, the mainly Muslim people of Gorazde had e[...]
'The blessing of an inherently interpretive medium like comics is that it hasn't allowed me to ...make a virtue of dispassion. For good or for ill, the comics medium is adamant, and it has forced me to make choices. In my view, that is part of its message' - from the preface by Joe Sacco Over the pa[...]
Joe Sacco is renowned for his non-fiction books of comics journalism like Palestine, Safe Area Gorazde and Footnotes in Gaza. Now in Bumf he returns to his early days as a satirist and underground cartoonist. In the vein of the old underground comix like ZAP or Weirdo, Bumf will be puerile, disgusti[...]
A first for the world's greatest cartoon reporter, a collection of journalism, including articles on the American military in Iraq that have never been published in the United States Over the past decade, Joe Sacco, "our moral draughtsman" (Christopher Hitchens), has increasingly turned to short-for[...]
"The images Sacco draws are so powerful that they burn deep into your retina and reconfigure how you see the world... "Journalism" displays Sacco at the top of his game."--"National Post" (Toronto)Over the past decade, Joe Sacco has increasingly turned to short-form comics journalism to report from [...]
"The Comics of Joe Sacco" addresses the range of his award-winning work, from his early comics stories as well as his groundbreaking journalism "Palestine" (1993) and "Safe Area to Gora de" (2000), to "Footnotes in Gaza" (2009) and his most recent book "The Great War" (2013), a graphic history of Wo[...]
"In late 1991 and early 1992, Joe Sacco spent two months with Palestinians in the Occupied Territories, traveling and taking notes. Upon returning to the United States in mid-1992, he started writing and drawing Palestine, which combined the techniques of eyewitness reportage with the medium of comi[...]
Praised by The New York Times, Brill's Content and Publishers Weekly, Safe Area Gorazdeis the long-awaited and highly sought after 240-page look at war in theformer Yugoslavia. Sacco (the critically-acclaimed author of Palestine)spent five months in Bosnia in 1996, immersing himself in the humanside[...]
In the vein of the old underground comix like ZAP or Weirdo, author Joe Sacco promises that BUMF will go where it needs to go, and do what it needs to do. Though world-famous for his serious, journalistic books like Palestine, Safe Area Gorazde, and Footnotes in Gaza, Bumf promises to echo back to S[...]
Rafah er en by helt sør på Gaza stripen, et ganske dystert sted. Sementfasader og søplete bakgater. De trange gatene er fylt med barn og arbeidsløse menn. Rafha er i dag og har alltid vært, midt i frontlinjen for denne bitreste av alle konflikter. Byen ligger på grensen mot Egypt og store dele[...]
Dette er en tegneserie om konflikten mellom Israel og Palestina. På slutten av 1991 og i begynnelsen av 1992 tilbrakte forfatteren to måneder sammen med palestinerne på Vestbredden og på Gazastripen under den første intifadaen mot den israelske okkupasjonen. Det resulterte i en dokumentarisk te[...]
I Rafah, en stad på Gazaremsans sydspets, har hela kvarter jämnats med marken av bulldozers och horder av arbetslösa driver omkring på de skräpiga gatorna. Rafah är, och har alltid varit, en brännpunkt i världens mest förbittrade konflikt.
I november 1956 dödades här och i gran[...]
Västbanken och Gazaremsan är sedan 1967 ockuperade av Israel. En av de längsta ockupationerna i modern historia. Kampen mot ockupationen fördes länge av palestinska organisationer i exil. Men 1987 reser sig folket på de ockuperade områdena i den första intifadan.
Vintern 1991, nä[...]
Det skulle inte kunna hända igen efter andra världskriget. Inte efter kalla krigets slut. Inte nu, när kommunismen, detta ?ondskans imperium?, äntligen besegrats av Demokratin och Den fria marknaden. Inte ?mitt i Europa?. Men det hände igen ändå. I Jugoslavien 1991?1999. Krig ?mitt i Europa?.[...]
Utan fixare kommer du ingen vart som krigsreporter. Det är fixaren som har de rätta kontakterna, som känner till dolda fakta, som kan leda dig till de bästa scoopen ? om du kan betala, förstås.
Neven, en serb från Sarajevo, var Joe Saccos fixare 1995/96 när han samlade material t[...]
This is a first collection by leading Palestinian political cartoonist, introduced by the author of Palestine. Naji al-Ali grew up in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain al-Hilweh in the south Lebanese city of Sidon, where his gift for drawing was discovered by the Palestinian poet Ghassan Kanafani [...]