Joe Sacco

Edward W. Said

Uses a comic book format to shed light on the complex and emotionally-charged situation of Palestinian Arabs, exploring the lives of Israeli soldiers, Palestinian refugees, and children in the Occupied Territories.

Palestine

Presents an original investigation into the 1956 massacre of more than one hundred Palestinian refugees by Israeli soldiers in Rafah in graphic novel format.

A Graphic Novel

Footnotes in Gaza

Comic strips reveal the lives of those living in the Muslim enclave of Gorazde during the Bosian war, describing how they survived Serbian attacks that left them without access to the outside world, electricity, or running water.

Safe Area Goražde

From the “heir to R. Crumb and Art Spiegelman” (Economist), a masterful work of comics journalism about indigenous North America, resource extraction, and our debt to the natural world The Dene have lived in the vast Mackenzie River Valley since time immemorial, by their account. To the Dene, the land owns them, not the other way around, and it is central to their livelihood and very way of being. But the subarctic Canadian Northwest Territories are home to valuable resources, including oil, gas, and diamonds. With mining came jobs and investment, but also road-building, pipelines, and toxic waste, which scarred the landscape, and alcohol, drugs, and debt, which deformed a way of life. In Paying the Land, Joe Sacco travels the frozen North to reveal a people in conflict over the costs and benefits of development. The mining boom is only the latest assault on indigenous culture: Sacco recounts the shattering impact of a residential school system that aimed to “remove the Indian from the child”; the destructive process that drove the Dene from the bush into settlements and turned them into wage laborers; the government land claims stacked against the Dene Nation; and their uphill efforts to revive a wounded culture. Against a vast and gorgeous landscape that dwarfs all human scale, Paying the Land lends an ear to trappers and chiefs, activists and priests, to tell a sweeping story about money, dependency, loss, and culture—recounted in stunning visual detail by one of the greatest cartoonists alive.

Paying the Land

A journalistic collection in comic book format from the sidelines of wars around the world includes articles on the American military in Iraq, the Caucasus widow trials, the dilemmas of India's "untouchables," and the smuggling tunnels of Gaza.

Journalism

A Story from Sarajevo

The Fixer

Adam Hochschild

Describes the battle on the first day of World War I, which saw 20,000 British soldiers killed and another 40,000 injured, on the banks of the French river as they mounted a joint offensive against the German army. 30,000 first printing.

July 1, 1916 : the First Day of the Battle of the Somme : an Illustrated Panorama

The Great War

Palestina. Una nazione occupata

Chronicles the adventures of Neven, who leads journalists to stories during the Yugoslav War.

عبد النبي، محمد،

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 U.S., he started writing and drawing Palestine, which combined the techniques of eyewitness reportage with the medium of comic-book storytelling to explore this complex, emotionally weighty situation.

فلسطين

THE COMPLETE SOFTCOVER COLLECTION OF BOSNIAN WAR SHORT STORIES FROM THE AUTHOR OF PALESTINE AND SAFE AREA GORAŽDE Using old-fashioned pen and paper, the award-winning cartoonist Joe Sacco reports from the sidelines of wars around the world. The Fixer and Other Stories is a new softcover that collects Sacco’s landmark short stories on the Bosnian War that previously comprised the hardcover editions of The Fixer and War’s End.

The Fixer and Other Stories

Historias de Bosnia

Before Joe Sacco crafted his two major works of "cartoon journalism," Palestine and Safe Area Gorazde, he created a number of shorter pieces, ranging from one-page gags to 30-page "graphic novelettes." This massive book finally collects the entirety of Sacco's earlier journalistic and autobiographical work, plus a sizable serving of his satirical strips, many of them never before collected in book form. The centerpieces in Notes from a Defeatist are a triptych of war stories: "When Good Bombs Happen to Bad People," a history of aerial bombing that specifically targets civilian populations; "More Women, More Children, More Quickly," in which Sacco relates his mother's harrowing experiences during World War II in Malta; and, most personally (and closest to Sacco's later work), "How I Loved the War," Sacco's impassioned but sardonic reflection on the Gulf War, the surrounding propaganda and media circus, and his own ambivalent feelings as both a spectator and commentator: The book derives its title from this sequence, which has acquired a painful new relevance in the past half-year. Notes from a Defeatist also includes a roadie's-eye view of an American punk band's eventful European tour, a reminiscence of an awful season spent in his native Malta, and much more. Notes from a Defeatist is a fantastic primer to Sacco's work.

Notes from a Defeatist

Joe Sacco, l'auteur de "Gaza 1956" et "Gorazde", reprenant ses carnet de reporter-dessinateur, s'est rendu dans les Territoires du Nord-Quest du Canada, au-dessous de l'Arctique, un région grande comme la France et l'Espagne, mais peuplée de seulement 45,000 personnes. Allant à la recontre des Dene, il nous retrace l'listoire de ce pays depuis l'arrivée des premiers colons et dresse un portrait actuel, économique, écologique et terriblement humaniste.

à la rencontre des premières nations des territoires du nord-ouest canadien

Payer la terre

Joe Sacco is well known as an unflinching chronicler of the injustice inflicted on the Palestinian people (Palestine, 1993; Footnotes in Gaza, 2010). He continues this mission with War on Gaza, a series of graphic commentaries on Israel's rampage that began more than a year ago and continues relentlessly today. 
Published in installments on The Comics Journal's website, War on Gaza is a series of comics and single-panel illustrations that lay bare the naked immorality of the "war" itself and its dire and tragic consequences. Employing his trademark combination of honesty, compassion, and dark humor, Sacco's War on Gaza is an uncompromising critique of Israel's genocide and the complicity of President Joe Biden and the United States.

War on Gaza

'In the Gaza Strip' (Palestine)

Palestine Book2

ALEXANDRE BOIDE

Em novembro de 1956, nas cidades de Khan Younis e Rafah, centenas de civis foram mortos pelo exército israelense em uma incursão militar que tinha tudo para ser uma operação rotineira de captura de guerrilheiros palestinos. Segundo um dos poucos relatórios da ONU disponíveis, os soldados teriam simplesmente entrado em pânico ao deparar com uma multidão em fuga. Já de acordo com o primeiro ministro israelense, as tropas teriam entrado em confronto com rebeldes armados, muito embora não tenha ocorrido uma única baixa entre suas fileiras. Em 'Notas sobre Gaza', Joe Sacco mergulha nos escombros de um conflito para reconstituir alguns dos eventos da escalada de violência em que se transformou a relação entre israelenses e palestinos.

Joe Sacco

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