“..Cartoonist Joe Sacco on his latest book on Palestine, how he draws .. and why he prefers “comic book” to “graphic novel.”
Amazon may call Joe Sacco a graphic novelist, but there’s nothing fictional about his work.
With the sprawling Footnotes in Gaza (Henry Holt and Company) Sacco returns to Palestine ..
.. the place that first catapulted him into the international spotlight in 1993.
His most ambitious project yet unearths a forgotten chapter in the 1954 Suez Crisis that left hundreds of Gazan civilians dead at the hands of the Israeli army.
He spoke to us about changes in Palestine, his drawing habits ..
.. and what comics can do that photos and prose can’t ..”
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