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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 fo
I slutningen af 1991 og starten af 1992 rejste journalist og tegneserieskaber Joe Sacco rundt med palæstinensiske oprører under den første Intifada. Med en notesblok i hånden fulgte han dem i to måneder gennem Vestbredden og Gazastriben, der begge var bes
From the ground-breaking graphics journalist and author of Palestine, a revelatory investigation of the deadly sectarian riots in 2013 Uttar Pradesh, India, and their urgent global significance today Compared to other episodes of lethal Indian communal vi
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 forc
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 civi
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 m
A meticulous investigation rendered with unforgettable humanity. In Footnotes in Gaza , acclaimed cartoonist and journalist Joe Sacco delves into one bloody incident in 1956 that left over one hundred Palestinians dead, shot by Israeli soldiers. Seemingly
In his first full-length work of journalism in a decade, the 'heir to R. Crumb and Art Spiegelman' ( Economist ) brings his comics mastery to a story of indigenous North America, resource extraction, and our debt to the natural world *A GUARDIAN B
The winner of the 2001 Eisner Award for Best New Graphic Album. Sacco spent five months in Bosnia in 1996, immersing himself in the human side of life during wartime, researching stories that are rarely found in conventional news coverage, emerging with t
From "our greatest living comics journalist" ( Minneapolis Star Tribune ), a revelatory investigation of deadly sectarian riots in Uttar Pradesh, India, that explores the mechanics, dynamics, mythologies, uses, and abuses of political violence e
Joe Sacco's breakthrough work of graphic journalism -- a now-established genre almost single handedly invented by Sacco -- won the American Book Award upon its initial release in 1996, and has remained a perennial, essential work for understanding the
"Sacco brings the conflict down to the most human level, allowing us to imagine our way inside it, to make the desperation he discovers, in some small way, our own."-- Los Angeles Times Rafah, a town at the bottommost tip of the Gaza Strip, has