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Say the words “war journalism” and the first image that comes to mind is of a grizzly, brow-beaten correspondent clutching a microphone in a bullet-ridden, 30-second slot on the evening news. It’s certainly not of a comic book filled with meticulously rendered explosions and heartbreakingly candid interviews – but that’s how war appears in the hands of Joe Sacco. The journalist and comics artist has delivered a career’s worth of first-hand reportage from some of the world’s most hostile areas through his painstakingly researched comic books, portraying life in a war-zone with a beguiling humour that only half obscures the precarious reality of conflict.

I wasn’t trying to reconcile the differences between Israelis and Palestinians. I wanted to show some of the small issues related to the occupation. In fact, I don’t think I showed anything spectacular. Murray, Charles Shaar (February 4, 2003). "Palestine by Joe Sacco: The graphic truth about Palestinian existence". The Independent. Sacco is currently working on a comic book about the southern Gaza Strip called Footnotes in Gaza, due for release at the end of 2008. Joe Sacco was born in Malta on October 2, 1960. At the age of one, he moved with his family to Australia, where he spent his childhood until 1972, when they moved to Los Angeles. He began his journalism career working on the Sunset High School newspaper in Beaverton, Oregon. While journalism was his primary focus, this was also the period of time in which he developed his penchant for humor and satire. He graduated from Sunset High in 1978. Prior to Safe Area Gorazde: The War In Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995—Joe Sacco's breakthrough novel of graphic journalism—the acclaimed author was best known for Palestine, a two-volume graphic novel that won an American Book Award in 1996.We see how a young professional and father undergoes similar treatment under ‘administrative detention’. His crime, calling relatives abroad. The Punishment? A broken door late at night and traumatized kids and being exposed to torture by a broken legal system. There may be truth in certain situations for both descriptions, but Palestinians are also people going to school, who have families, have lives, invite you into their home, and think about their food.

Chris Hedges – Lannan Foundation". Lannan.org. Archived from the original on December 8, 2012 . Retrieved October 15, 2012. I think it’s the “everyman experience” that people can relate to. It’s harder to imagine; harder to put yourself in the picture of someone who is being humiliated.Newswatch: Joe Sacco Wins an American Book Award for Palestine," The Comics Journal #188 (July 1996), p. 8.

Will he one day return to Gaza for a third time? Or perhaps he could look at the conflict from Sderot or some other town on the Israeli side. "It depends on what I feel in my gut. There are lots of places in the world where things are pretty bad. When I read about them, though, I have to wait for the story to work on me. With Bosnia, it took a full year for that to happen. But I do feel Palestinians have been misrepresented in the America media over a long time; we've internalised all sorts of things about them. Moreover, what effect had this incident had on the collective memory of Rafah, now once again in brutal conflict with the Israeli army? Stein, Joel. 2000. "Joe Sacco's Safe Area Gorazde is a comic-book look at a horrible war." Time (May 1): 72 The complete graphic novel, published in 2001 by Fantagraphics Books, [1] collects nine issues of Sacco's Palestine comic book, published by Fantagraphics from 1993 to 1995; the single volume edition includes an introduction by Edward Said. In 1996, Fantagraphics had released a two-part collection of the series — Palestine, a Nation Occupied (collecting Palestine #1-5) and Palestine: In the Gaza Strip (collecting issues #6-9). [2] An expanded edition was released in 2007. In fact we’ve had it shoved down our throats all our lives! No if, no but, no ‘other side’ for Palestinians.It became methodical, but there were certainly more random aspects to the book. I let myself be pulled in many ways, with the mindset: “What ever comes up, comes up.” A landmark of journalism and the art form of comics. Based on several months of research and an extended visit to the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the early 1990s, this is a major work of political and historical nonfiction. Johnson, Barry (May 28, 2012). "Weekend Wrap: Sacco, Blues & 'Jamb' ". Oregon Public Broadcasting. Archived from the original on May 13, 2019 . Retrieved May 13, 2019. Baker, Bill (December 27, 2000). "[Undeclared] Wartime: 5 Minutes with Joe Sacco on Palestine". WizardWorld.com. Archived from the original on June 15, 2002.