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Joe Sacco in London and His First Digital Comic!
Posted: October 25, 2013
After headlining at last week’s spectacular premiere of the Lakes International Comic Art Festival in Kendal, Joe Sacco is in London over the coming few days. For the first time ever, he is speaking with Pat Mills, legendary writer of the First World War series Charley’s War at an exclusive Comica Conversation at the Platform Theatre, Handyside Street, London N1C 4AA near King’s Cross on Saturday October 26th from 7.30pm. He will also be signing copies of his latest book, The Great War. You can book tickets online or buy on the door.
Sacco will also talk about his first digital comic for new journalism publisher Acuerdo from Madrid. You can support this important new space for “pissed-off readers” via their Kickstarter page. Like me, make a pledge by November 4th and make this happen!
More info from Acuerdo:
Joe Sacco returns to Bosnia with ‘Srebrenica’, his first digital comic Srebrenica, the long-awaited digital debut of one of the world authorities in comic journalism. His first journalistic web comic investigates the open scars after the Balkan War with one of its survivors as a thread for a chronicle as real as it is heartbreaking: Sacco in pure form.
Joe Sacco will publish this winter Srebrenica, the first digital comic of his career, a heartbreaking news story in which the award-winning American cartoonist returns to Bosnia 18 years after one of the iconic genocides of the twentieth century occurred during the Balkan War, to portray the open scars after that massacre from the hand of one of its few survivors. A web comic with which the author of Palestine and Safe Area Goražde debuts in the digital universe at hand of Acuerdo, a new biweekly media that focuses on investigative journalism and interactive content that will be born this winter in Spanish, English and Portuguese.
The comic is available at an exclusive price of £2 during the Kickstarter campaign of Acuerdo, in which one can also reserve the rest of the reports and other subscriptions for this future media. Acuerdo is a biweekly publication for tablets and computers that will be born this winter and blend the best of investigative journalism with the latest trends and digital resources. Interactive reports in three languages and a network of partners distributed across five continents coordinated by a team of journalists, designers and programmers based in Madrid and London.
How is a comic digital? Srebrenica will be an animated comic being that much of the action unfolds by reading, although it will put forward sufficient interaction in the form of elements that will emerge to the reader on demand. However, the story will be sequential to respect the narrative proposed by the author. The most complicated thing, in the words of Sacco, is “finding the beat” to each animation.
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