'The blessing of an inherently interpretive medium like comics is that it hasn't allowed me to . . .make a virtue of dispassion. For good or for ill, the comics medium is
adamant, and it has forced me to make choices. In my view, that is part
of its message' - from the preface by Joe Sacco. Over the past decade, Joe
Sacco has increasingly turned to short-form comics journalism to
report from conflict zones around the world.
Collected here for
the first time, Sacco's darkly funny, revealing reportage confirms his
standing as one of the foremost international correspondents working
today. Journalism takes readers from the smuggling tunnels of Gaza to
war crimes trials in The Hague, from the lives of India's 'untouchables'
to the ordeal of sub-Saharan refugees washed up on the shores of Malta.
Sacco also confronts the misery and absurdity of the war in Iraq,
including the darkest chapter in recent American history - the torture
of detainees.
Vividly depicting Sacco's own interactions with
the people he meets, the stories in this remarkable collection argue for
the essential truth in comics reportage, an inevitably subjective
journalistic endeavour. Among Sacco's most mature and accomplished work,
Journalism demonstrates the power of a great comics artist to chronicle
lived experience with a force that often eludes other media.
Journalism - Joe Sacco
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