Palestine

In late l991 and early 1992 at the time of the first Intifada Joe Sacco spent two months with the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip travelling and taking notes. He captures the heart of the Palestinian experience in image after unforgettable image with great insight and remarkable humour.|In late l991 and early 1992 at the time of the first Intifada Joe Sacco spent two months with the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip travelling and taking notes. He captures the heart of the Palestinian experience in image after unforget...|Joe Sacco one of the world’s foremost cartoonists is widely hailed as the creator of war-reportage comics. He is the author of Palestine Safe Area Gorazde The Fixer Notes from a Defeatist and Footnotes in Gaza all published by Jonathan Cape.|Joe Sacco one of the world's greatest cartoonists is widely hailed as the creator of war reportage comics. He is the author of among other books Palestine which received the American Book Award and Safe Area: Goražde which won the Eisner Award and was named a New York Times notable book and Time magazine's best comic book of 2000. His books have been translated into fourteen languages and his comics reporting has appeared in Details The New York Times Magazine Time Harper's and the Guardian. He lives in Portland Oregon.|A political and aesthetic work of extraordinary originality quite unlike any other in the long often turgid and hopelessly twisted debates that have occupied Palestinians Israelis and their respective supporters... With the exception of one or two novelists and poets no one has ever rendered this terrible state of affairs better than Joe Sacco|The bar is set extremely high when it comes to graphic books and the Middle East: one thinks of Joe Sacco's Palestine|Palestine is a unique take on the Isreali/Palestinian conflict… The illustrator/reporter provides a unique perspective: there is an intimacy to Sacco’s interviews that cannot be translated into photography and text. His drawings make his subjects relatable to in a way that I think is difficult to achieve with a photograph.|Palestine is utterly compelling and as affecting as the work of any war photographer or poet.