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A Child in Palestine - The Cartoons of Naji Al-Ali by Naji Al-Ali; Joe Sacco (Introduction by)
Category: History
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 in the late 1950s. Early the following decade he left for Kuwait, embarking on a thirty-year career that would see ...Show more
Bumf by Joe Sacco
Category: Graphic Novels
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, disgusting, ...Show more
Days Of Destruction Days Of Revolt by Chris Hedges; Joe Sacco
Category: Politics
Named a Best Book of the Year by Amazon.com and the Washington Post Three years ago, Pulitzer Prize-winner Chris Hedges and award-winning cartoonist and journalist Joe Sacco set out to take a look at the sacrifice zones, those areas in America that have been offered up for exploitation in the name of pr ...Show more
Fixer : A story from Sarajevo by Joe Sacco
Category: Graphic Novels
In his remarkable new book 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 r ...Show more
Footnotes in Gaza by Joe Sacco
Category: Graphic Novels
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 has a ...Show more
Footnotes in Gaza by Joe Sacco
Category: Graphic Novels
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 has a ...Show more
Journalism by Joe Sacco
Category: Languages and Reference
"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 past ...Show more
Notes from a Defeatist by Joe Sacco
Category: Fiction
Collects the entirety of the author's earlier journalistic and autobiographical work. This book also includes a view of an American punk band's eventful European tour, a reminiscence of an awful season spent in his native Malta, and more.
Palestine by Edward Said, Joe Sacco
Category: Graphic Novels
A single volume collection of the landmark novel by Joe Sacco, author of Safe Area Goradze. Palestine was his first major comic work of political and historical non-fiction, and was based on several months research and an extended visit to the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the early 1990s, where he conduc ...Show more
Palestine by Joe Sacco
Category: Fiction
Combining the techniques of eyewitness reportage with the medium of comic-book storytelling to explore the complex, emotionally weighty subject of Palestine, this one-volume work combines the previously published nine-issue comic series that won a 1996 American Book Award.
Paying the Land by Joe Sacco
Category: Graphic Novels
Joe Sacco is famous for his comics journalism set in either the Middle East (Palestine) or Balkans (Safe Area Gorazde), so Paying the Land is a radical new departure for him. In it Sacco travels to Canada's Northwest Territories, a huge, frozen wasteland populated only by the Dene, the indigenous people ...Show more