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Article: Joe Sacco - From Witness To Historian
Posted: December 18, 2011
Sixteen years separate the initial publication in comic book form of Palestine, started in 1993 at Fantagraphics Books, and the new graphic novel published in 2009, Footnotes In Gaza, the two graphic novels by Joe Sacco about Palestine. With the first book, Sacco, a young journalism student, combined for the first time in comics his own subjectivity with autobiographical ‘gonzo’ journalism, in the style of Hunter S. Thompson. For his return to the Gaza Strip, we see a more sobre, accurate and rigorous Sacco, driven by a real historian’s approach to investigate two massacres committed by the Israeli army in 1956 and consigned to oblivion. Based on this observation, I propose to compare these two important works by insisting on the one hand on examining the narrative techniques and stylistic choices, and above all, on the other hand, the personal motivations that led Sacco to carry out these changes from one work to another. Read the full article here…
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