Joe Sacco, Author . Fantagraphics $19.95 (216p) ISBN 978-1-56097-510-6
This collection of early work by cartoonist/journalist Sacco, of American Book Award–winning Palestine
and Safe Area Gorazde
acclaim, assembles pieces ranging from early reportage to Sacco's young attempts at satire. Of the two genres,...
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Joe Sacco, Author . Drawn and Quarterly $24.95 (140p) ISBN 978-1-896597-60-7
Intrepid reporter and comics artist Sacco returns to Bosnia and Sarajevo to chronicle Neven, a "fixer" who leads Western reporters to stories, dispensing information and literally guiding them through the fascinating, dangerous landscape of...
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Joe Sacco, Author . Drawn & Quarterly $14.95 (65p) ISBN 978-1-896597-92-8
These two stories by Sacco bookend his definitive works of comics journalism on the Bosnian War, The Fixer
and Safe Area Gorazde
. Like those books, these stories take readers with Sacco as he searches for some truth in all the conjecture and...
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Joe Sacco, Author . Fantagraphics $24.95 (122p) ISBN 978-1-56097-729-2
It's news to most of us that rock and roll cartoonist is a job option, but that's exactly what Sacco did before hitting the (relative) big time with his graphic journalism masterpieces like Safe Area Gorazde
. In this ragtag mix tape of...
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Joe Sacco, Author . Metropolitan $29.99 (418p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7347-8
Having already established his reputation as the world's leading comics journalist, Sacco (Safe Area Gorazde
) is now making a serious case to be considered one of the world's top journalists, period. His newest undertaking is a bracing...
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Joe Sacco, Author Fantagraphics Books $14.95 (144p) ISBN 978-1-56097-150-4
Sacco spent two months during the winter of 1991-92 living in Jerusalem and visiting the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to see for himself what life was like for Palestinians under the Israeli occupation. He has produced a fascinating you-are-there-wit
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Joe Sacco, Author Fantagraphics Books $14.95 (136p) ISBN 978-1-56097-170-2
This volume collects a number of shorter works by Sacco (Palestine), self-proclaimed cartoon genius. Only about half are about war; in the rest Sacco is in Europe, on the road with your typical leather-jacketed, crotch-grabbing American rock band....
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Joe Sacco. Metropolitan, $29 (208p) ISBN 978-0-8050-9486-2
This volume of Sacco’s shorter pieces makes an outstanding companion to his acclaimed book-length works, which include Safe Area Gorazde and Footnotes in Gaza. In a short preface titled “A Manifesto, Anyone?” Sacco succinctly lays out his goals and...
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Joe Sacco. Norton, $35 (54p) ISBN 978-0-393-08880-9
The Battle of the Somme in Northern France, pitching English and French troops against Germany, was the first great military push by the British of World War I—and the one most dearly paid for in blood, with casualties of over one million killed or...
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Joe Sacco, Author, Christopher Hitchens, Introduction by Fantagraphics Books $28.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-56097-392-8
In 1995, comics artist and journalist Sacco (Palestine) rode in a supply convoy into the U.N.-designated ""safe area"" of Gorazde, a small Bosnian Muslim town deep within Serb territory and under military siege by Orthodox Christian Serb...
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Joe Sacco. Metropolitan, $29.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-62779-903-4
Eisner-winner Sacco (Safe Area Goražde) travels to northern Canada to talk with members of the Dene, a First Nations group located largely in the Northwest Territories, in this arresting exploration of a community on the brink. Fracking is the hotly
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Joe Sacco. Fantagraphics, $12.99 trade paper (32p) ISBN 979-8-8750-0090-4
Sacco’s novella-length follow-up to 2009’s Footnotes in Gaza sounds a short but sustained scream of despair. Originally serialized online in the wake of the October 7th Hamas attack and Israel’s subsequent bombing of Gaza, Sacco’s bitterly satirical
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