Beautiful format for telling this kind of story. You get a real sense of place through the illustrations and short narratives woven in and out of each other. I was disappointed to not find more context for the history; some interviews with IDF officials or international diplomats serving around t...
No se puede decir que Sacco siquiera pretenda aparecer como imparcial, sus simpatías están claras, pero esta investigación sobre un incidente (si se puede llamar así a una matanza) ocurrido en Gaza en 1956 nos acerca al día a día de Palestina de manera cuando menos verosímil. Tras haber leído bas...
Kudos to Joe Sacco for being insistence, especially on the issue of 1956. Without this book, I would never come to light on 1956 issue. It was cruel, inhumane yet somehow managed to skip from the publishers wording and front page, kept hidden till kingdom come; until Joe Sacco dig it out again to...
Voilà une excellente BD sur un sujet dont je dois avouer que je ne connaissais pas avant la lecture. À travers ce livre j'ai vu à quel point les Israéliens et les Palestiniens sont dans un cercle vicieux dont aucun des deux ne veux se retirer. C'est une situation où il n'y a aucun vrai coupable...
A heavy but level headed journalistic investigation into two specific atrocities, overlooked to the point of being considered "footnotes", in a place where atrocities seem to indistinguishably blend into one another over the decades. A basic understanding of the Arab-Israeli conflict is probably ...
The ebook or iPad format is not very good for graphic novels. The print is just too small. However, Joe Sacco's work is the best reportage on the world bar none. Sure, he makes no bones about a certain bias to his stories. To paraphrase Robert Fisk, he is unbiased on the side of the victim. But I...