Journalism

Format:

Book

Title:

Journalism

Author:

Sacco, Joe.

ISBN:

9780805094862

9780805097931

Edition:

1st U.S. ed.

Publication Information:

New York : Metropolitan Books / Henry Holt and Co., 2012.

Physical Description:

xiv, 191 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

General Note:

"This volume collects most all the shorter reporting pieces I have done over the years for magazines, newspapers, and book anthologies. As such, it seems to call for some sort of introductory fusillade to rout all those who would naysay the legitimacy of comics as an effective means of journalism"--Page xi.

Contents:

Preface : A manifesto anyone? -- The Hague: The war crimes trials -- The Palestinian territories: Hebron: a look inside -- Gaza portfolio -- The underground war in Gaza -- The Caucasus: Chechen war, Chechen women -- What refugees? -- Iraq: Complacency kills -- Down! Up! -- Trauma on loan -- Migration: The unwanted -- India: Kushinagar.

Summary:

A journalistic collection in comic book format from the sidelines of wars around the world includes articles on the American military in Iraq, the Caucasus widow trials, the dilemmas of India's "untouchables," and the smuggling tunnels of Gaza.

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 war 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 Saharan refugees washed up on the shores of Malta. And in pieces never published before in the United States, Sacco 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 endeavor. Among Sacco's most mature and accomplished work, Journalism demonstrates the power of our premier cartoonist to chronicle lived experience with a force that often eludes other media. -- Back cover.

Subject(s):

Military history, Modern -- 20th century -- Comic books, strips, etc.

Military history, Modern -- 21st century -- Comic books, strips, etc.

War -- Comic books, strips, etc.

War and society -- Comic books, strips, etc.

Genre:

Graphic novels.

War comics

Comics (Graphic works)

Graphic novels

War comics.

Holds:

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Summary

A first for the world's greatest cartoon reporter, a collection of journalism, including articles on the American military in Iraq that have never been published in the United States

Over the past decade, Joe Sacco, "our moral draughtsman" (Christopher Hitchens), has increasingly turned to short-form comics journalism to report from the sidelines of wars around the world. Collected here for the first time, Sacco's darkly funny, revealing reportage confirms his standing as one of the foremost war correspondents working today.

In "The Unwanted," Sacco chronicles the detention of Saharan refugees who have washed up on the shores of Malta; "Chechen War, Chechen Women" documents the trial without end of widows in the Caucasus; and "Kushinagar" goes deep into the lives of India's untouchables, who are hanging "onto the planet by their fingernails." Other pieces take Sacco to the smuggling tunnels of Gaza; the trial of Milan Kovacevic, Bosnian warlord, in The Hague; and the darkest chapter in recent American history, Abu Ghraib. And on a mission with American troops--pieces never published in the United States--he confronts the misery and absurdity of the war in Iraq.

Among Sacco's most mature, accomplished work, Journalism demonstrates the power of our premier cartoonist to chronicle human experience with a force that often eludes other media.

Author Notes

Joe Sacco is the author of the Eisner Award-winning graphic novels Footnotes in Gaza and Safe Area Goražde , among other books. His works have been translated into fourteen languages and his comics reporting has appeared in Details , The New York Times Magazine , Time , and Harper's . He lives in Portland, Oregon.

Reviews (1)

Publisher's Weekly Review

This volume of Sacco's shorter pieces makes an outstanding companion to his acclaimed book-length works, which include Safe Area Gorazde and Footnotes in Gaza. In a short preface titled "A Manifesto, Anyone?" Sacco succinctly lays out his goals and predispositions with regard to his medium, both embracing and answering the hackneyed criticisms that crop up whenever someone is alarmed by the concept of cartoon journalism. It's hard to take issue with Sacco's ethics or politics, which are far from concealed or misleading; he goes so far as to draw himself into many of his stories-not out of egocentricity, but to make clear how he foundthe story and the circumstances under which he gained information. The stories in this volume run from 1998 to 2011. Whether traveling to Hebron, Iraq, India, or his native Malta, Sacco's great strength is in digging up dramatic individual stories that are illustrative of larger social or political problems. Although hints of the work of Will Elder, R. Crumb, and Art Spiegelman can be found in Sacco's appealing black-and-white art, the sum effect is his highly recognizable own. The book is a powerful record of voices that would have otherwise gone largely unheard. (June) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.