Archive for: Joe Sacco

Ethan on the Advantages of Comics Journalism

Ethan on the Advantages of Comics Journalism

Reasons for Joe Sacco’s method in Footnotes in Gaza

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Comics Journalism…Why?

Comics Journalism…Why?

Genius and pulp in Joe Sacco’s “Footnotes in Gaza”

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Joe Sacco’s <i>Journalism</i>

Joe Sacco’s Journalism

One might say that journalistic drawings inhabit that (un)happy land between the reader’s imagination (in pure prose) and concrete reality (in photography).

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Footnotes in Oral History

Footnotes in Oral History

The point being, no single viewpoint or narrative could fully encompass the vast and polarised history of this country. This is obviously true of all countries, and all histories, but it is perhaps even more pertinent in Palestine, where history plays a disproportionately large role in shaping the attitudes of the now.

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