Part documentary travelogue, part satirical autobiography, part satire pure and simple, NOTES FROM A DEFEATIST collects all the shorter works that launched Joe Sacco on the path to his book- length masterpiece, PALESTINE.
Part documentary travelogue, part satirical autobiography, part satire pure and simple, Notes from a Defeatist collects all the shorter works that launched Joe Sacco on the path to his two book-length masterpieces of 'comics journalism', Palestine and Safe Area Gorazde.
Joe Sacco, one of the world's foremost cartoonists, is widely hailed as the creator of war-reportage comics. He is the author of Palestine, Safe Area Gorazde, The Fixer, Notes from a Defeatist , Footnotes in Gaza and Journalism, all published by Jonathan Cape.
Sacco is formidably talented. A meticulous reporter... and a gifted
artist whose richly nuanced drawings tread a delicate path between
cartoonishness and naturalism
*Independent*
Sacco's greatest achievement is to have so poignantly depicted
oppression and horror in a form that manages to be both disarming
and disquieting
*Observer*
One of the most original cartoonists of the past two decades
*Guardian*
It is clear that Sacco is one of the masters of his craft
*New Statesman*
Sacco is formidably talented. A meticulous reporter... and a gifted
artist whose richly nuanced drawings tread a delicate path between
cartoonishness and naturalism * Independent *
Sacco's greatest achievement is to have so poignantly depicted
oppression and horror in a form that manages to be both disarming
and disquieting * Observer *
One of the most original cartoonists of the past two decades *
Guardian *
It is clear that Sacco is one of the masters of his craft * New
Statesman *
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