Joe Sacco is awesome: his books are gorgeous, and in this interview he gives an eloquent argument for a non-comics audience for using comics to tell stories. Love.
In Footnotes in Gaza: A Graphic Novel, Joe Sacco looks back at 1956 in Gaza, when one bloody day in Rafah left 111 Palestinians dead. He tells the story in intricate pictures as well as the words of the people who survived that day, and like his other graphic works, he combines journalism with cartooning to create a hybrid art form that not only relates a story, but transports the reader back there.
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, Joe Sacco looks back at 1956 in Gaza, when one bloody day in Rafah left 111 Palestinians dead. He tells the story in intricate pictures as well as the words of the people who survived that day, and like his other graphic works, he combines journalism with cartooning to create a hybrid art form that not only relates a story, but transports the reader back there.
February 10th, 2010 at 1:46 pm
Thanks for this. I just finished reading his PALESTINE last week & was so taken by it that I bought FOOTNOTES IN GAZA a few days ago.
Brilliant.
–J.