The landmark work of comics journalism -by the author of 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 and Footnotes in Gaza, all published by Jonathan Cape.
A political and aesthetic work of extraordinary originality, quite
unlike any other in the long, often turgid and hopelessly twisted
debates that have occupied Palestinians, Israelis, and their
respective supporters... With the exception of one or two novelists
and poets, no one has ever rendered this terrible state of affairs
better than Joe Sacco
*Edward Said*
The bar is set extremely high when it comes to graphic books and
the Middle East: one thinks of Joe Sacco's Palestine
*Observer*
Palestine is a unique take on the Isreali/Palestinian conflict… The
illustrator/reporter provides a unique perspective: there is an
intimacy to Sacco’s interviews that cannot be translated into
photography and text. His drawings make his subjects relatable to
in a way that I think is difficult to achieve with a
photograph.
*Bleeding Cool*
Palestine is utterly compelling, and as affecting as the work of
any war photographer or poet.
*Varsity*
Sacco reports on his time spent in Israeli-occupied territories in 1991 and 1992 in this landmark work of comics journalism. He describes the political and social landscape using interviews with both Palestinians and Jews, offering an intimate picture of this region rarely portrayed in mainstream news. (c) Copyright 2012. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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