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Journalism

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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....more

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Published June 19th 2012 by Metropolitan Books (first published 2012)

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Dec 06, 2012 Aron rated it 3 of 5 stars

Ok, I love Joe Sacco's work. His empathy for people comes out in both the story telling and the visual portrayal of the people he interviews. However, unfortunately, more and more I feel self-righteousness has crept into his writing. Let me explain.

In his introduction, he consciously argues that his biases are justified, in that, following Fisk, he "is on the side that suffers." Unfortunately, except for perhaps the Indian Dalits story, where there IS only one side to that story, in the others h...more Ok, I love Joe Sacco's work. His empathy for people comes out in both the story telling and the visual portrayal of the people he interviews. However, unfortunately, more and more I feel self-righteousness has crept into his writing. Let me explain.

In his introduction, he consciously argues that his biases are justified, in that, following Fisk, he "is on the side that suffers." Unfortunately, except for perhaps the Indian Dalits story, where there IS only one side to that story, in the others his biases are not as "pure" as he likes to think (or have us think). On the political conflicts, when it comes to Russians and Israelis vs. Palestinians and Chechens, one side is portrayed in one dimension while the other are pure victims. In particular, in the Chechen story Russians are either the evil Putin or thuggish murderous soldiers. Well yes, it's true, the Russian army pounded Chechniya into dust and Putin is kinda evil. But the Chechniyan rebels are blood thirsty mad men as well and bear equal responsibility for the suffering of their own people. So true, the Chechniyan people suffered awfully, but you can't put all the blame on the Russian soldiers or even Putin.

By contrast, despite his anti-Imperialism he still relates on a human basis to his fellow US compatriots. So while objectively the US invasion of Iraq caused far more damage to Iraqis and Iraq, than Russia's razing of Chechniya, and objectively the US had less right to intervene, you would never know it from Sacco's pieces. Sure in one of the three Iraq stories he talks about US torture, but nonetheless the picture coming out is that the US soldiers are well meaning fine young folk from Rural America put in an unfair situation by bad Bushies. There is a lot of truth in that, but that's equally true of Russian soldiers, who had to deal with crazed Chechniyan militants. And equally so for Israeli soldiers. In fact the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has even more twists and nuances but at least Sacco does try a wee bit to paint Israelis as not all having horns. Similarly, I had to read in the text of his afterward that he sympathized with the African migrants over his Maltese tribe, because I sure didn't get that feeling in the story. There he portrayed all the complexities of both sides but that didn't quite align with his self image so he had to add clarifying words, words that contradict the story he actually told.

The point is not who is "right" or "wrong" in these stories - the point is Joe Sacco follows his heart which is not always or only about "the side that suffers." He loses clarity because he relies only on his own feelings and his empathy for the people in front of him, even when that empathy is not always or only about suffering (e.g. US soldiers or his Maltese tribe). So he ends up being both inconsistent and unfair. He too easily forgets that in most human stories, suffering is multi-sided and complex, and revels in his vision of himself as a moral hero, when he has nothing personal at stake.

What Sacco does is great story telling in a comic form, sort of an ongoing memoir of his own life and people he encounters. Perhaps it's political advocacy and perhaps in some places (mostly in the Chechniyan story), it verges on propaganda. But the title of this book is just plain wrong - this isn't Journalism.(less)

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Jan 21, 2013 David Schaafsma rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: graphic-history, gn-pedagogy

I think Sacco's longer works are better, but the large range of places represented in this text gives you a broader and deeper feel for the insanity of the world and all its atrocities. Sacco was there, and he isn't "objective" (what's that?) and I don't care. I want journalism committed to the powerless (or at least the least powerful). Does he paint the world too black and white? I don't think so. It's nuanced, because it focuses on the people he meets... and he's IN the stories, meeting these...more

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May 18, 2013 Christian Fredrickson rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: anyone interested in world affairs, politics, or humanitarian issues.

Like world travel, 'Journalism' is beautiful and horrifying. Rendered with masterful artwork and well-paced narrative, Sacco tells the stories of the underprivileged and oppressed. His stories not only cover the victims of various world disasters but also indicate overarching parallels between them. One ethnic group receives the focus as being victims, then the coin is flipped and we see how another group has suffered at their hands or by their presence, and then it turns again to reveal the hyp...more Like world travel, 'Journalism' is beautiful and horrifying. Rendered with masterful artwork and well-paced narrative, Sacco tells the stories of the underprivileged and oppressed. His stories not only cover the victims of various world disasters but also indicate overarching parallels between them. One ethnic group receives the focus as being victims, then the coin is flipped and we see how another group has suffered at their hands or by their presence, and then it turns again to reveal the hypocrisy and deceit of the second group and a momentum which leads, at some point in the future, to the absolute eradication of the first group. We find that no matter how much misery one group can suffer, it will still splinter to establish its own hierarchy and create new classes with new privilege and new suffering.

This is how every, every, every nation runs itself, and this is how it has been throughout history. No one is clean, nowhere is nice, and there is zero potential for learning and improvement. This is my takeaway from my travels and from this book. Belief to the contrary is tantamount to an emotionally underdeveloped teenager clinging to their childhood well into their 20s. We see this in the U.S., where drug manufacturers refuse to produce medicine for fear of the inevitable lawsuits, where the "common sense" response to mass shootings is to saturate the populace with unregistered firearms.

'Journalism' is an important book in that knowledge and education are important, but they are not a feel-good experience. The artwork is masterful and compelling, and it's interesting to note that drawing a picture of an event is much like writing an article about it: they are inadequate substitutes for experiencing the event, but our perceptions are faulty and no two people will come away with the same first-person impressions. Drawing an event and writing about it are both opportunities to highlight and stress certain aspects and wash others away. This can't be helped, but to a certain degree it can be controlled, so the next question is: how do we choose the journalists/artists we trust? Do we go with who brings us the most shocking information or who reaffirms whatever we want to believe?(less)

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Mar 21, 2013 Manish rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: non-fiction, graphic-novel

The non-fiction graphic novel 'Journalism' is actually a collection of reporting pieces by Joe Sacco. With images that linger in your mind long after you turn the page over, Sacco brings home the harsh realities of a number of troubled zones of the world in this collection.

The Hague War Crimes Tribunal set up in the aftermath of the Bosnian War, the Chechen crisis, the Israeli-Palestine conflict, the issue of African immigration into Sacco's native island of Malta, the American occupation of Ir...more

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Dec 04, 2012 Guillermo Azuarte rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: non-fiction

I hate how the man draws faces, but I think its cool he can bring important topics in the world to light in the comic book medium. Let's face it, only a small percentage of us read, and even a smaller percentage will read something on a topic as complex as the Israeli/Palestinian issue or Chechnya. With Sacco's unique brand of comic book journalism, he's reaching a wider audience, and shedding light on issues they may previously had no knowledge of.

I consider myself pretty well versed in intern...more

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Sep 10, 2012 Patrick McCoy rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: current-affairs, graphic-novels

Journalism (2012) by Joe Sacco, a comic journalist known for his books on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict (Palestine and Footnotes In Gaza) as well as his book on the Bosnian conflict (Safe Area Gorazde), is powerful stuff. After reading this book, I have come to the conclusion that his role is exposing human misery to the world through his reportage. It must be exhausting to have seen the many varieties that he has encountered in his travels through out he world. He obviously has an opinion ab...more
Journalism (2012) by Joe Sacco, a comic journalist known for his books on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict (Palestine and Footnotes In Gaza) as well as his book on the Bosnian conflict (Safe Area Gorazde), is powerful stuff. After reading this book, I have come to the conclusion that his role is exposing human misery to the world through his reportage. It must be exhausting to have seen the many varieties that he has encountered in his travels through out he world. He obviously has an opinion about what he is reporting on and a liberal bias. But it would be hard not to after seeing what he has seen and hearing the stories that he has heard. He takes journalist Robert Fisk's credo as his own: "I always say that reporters should be neutral and unbiased on the side of those who suffer." Furthermore, reading his books make me feel extremely fortunate to be in the position I am currently in, and realize that all my worries are shallow first world concerns and problems--I hopefully will never know the poverty, pain, and humiliation that is chronicled in these books.

The first piece in this collection is a depiction of the Bosnia war crimes trials that were held in the Hague that appeared in 1998. Each section end with a short summary of who he was reporting for, the context, the conditions, and what has happened since his reporting if relevant. This section was followed by three pieces on The Palestinian Territories from 2001-2003. I found the section on The Caucasus and the Chechen War moving and informative since I am not as knowledgeable about the is conflict and the misery it rained down on the Chechen people, which covered the years 2002-2008. This is followed by three pieces on the Iraq War from 2005-2007. "Down!Up!" about the training of the local militia was powerful as was "Trauma On Loan" about mistreatment of prisoners in Iraq and the lawsuit two Iraqi men brought against Donald Rumsfield. Migration from 2010, which is about the sudden influx of Africans in Malta, was also fascinating in the number of problems that people are facing in that country that many Japanese travel to study English in Europe. His final piece, written in 2011, takes place in India among the impoverished untouchables in Kushinagar--deep in the countryside, highlighting yet another group of people facing extinction. Overall it is a powerful, thought-provoking, and distressing look at suffering in the modern world.(less)

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Aug 10, 2012 Hugo Schoen rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: graphic-novels

Spanning over ten years of work across the globe, Joe Sacco’s latest release, Journalism, amasses most of the shorter reporting pieces he has investigated during that period. Weighing in at nearly two-hundred pages it is not small and far from being irrelevant. Within this graphic novel the reader is transported from the War Crime Tribunal of The Hague, to the testimonials of Chechen War refugees, Palestinian and Israeli habitation conflicts in Gaza, the mass migration of Africans into the islan...more Spanning over ten years of work across the globe, Joe Sacco’s latest release, Journalism, amasses most of the shorter reporting pieces he has investigated during that period. Weighing in at nearly two-hundred pages it is not small and far from being irrelevant. Within this graphic novel the reader is transported from the War Crime Tribunal of The Hague, to the testimonials of Chechen War refugees, Palestinian and Israeli habitation conflicts in Gaza, the mass migration of Africans into the island nation of Malta, American combatants in Iraq and the Iraqi men they are attempting to train and finally cumulating in the deplorable caste system conditions in India. Journalism is an eyewitness account, lyrically and graphically, of what it means to be displaced, to be torn, and frustrated in a world containing both the physical and metaphysical borders within a modern politico. Sacco embeds himself in these circumstances. You never lose sense of his presence in the history he is detailing with sympathies generally lying with the accounts of the unfortunate in his articles. He makes note of this in his preface.
“I chiefly concern myself with those who seldom get a hearing, and I don’t feel it is incumbent on me to balance their voices with the well-crafted apologetics of the powerful. The powerful are generally excellently served by the mainstream media or propaganda organs. The powerful should be quoted, yes, but to measure their pronouncements against the truth, not to obscure it….the blessing of an inherently interpretive medium like comics is that it hasn’t allowed me to lock myself within the confines of traditional journalism. By making it difficult to draw myself out of a scene, it hasn’t permitted me to make a virtue of dispassion. For good or for ill, the comics medium is adamant, and it has forced me to make choices.”
Reading Journalism has been incredibly rewarding. As a reporting cartoonist, Joe Sacco is without peer. Perhaps, I am just naïve concerning the catalogue of others that do similar work, but I cannot imagine anyone replicating the massively intricate individual details of his subjects with the stunning and accurate landscapes around them. I can only imagine the amount of time dedicated to each cell. You feel like you are with the U.S. Marines at Haditha, alongside the women and children living in particle board rooms in Nazran, and clearly feel the tension of citizens and refugees alike in the streets of Malta. The excellent placement of text and dialogue bubbles is never a case of interference and compliments the articles impeccably. Voices of the people are heard distinctly and without bias. Sacco chronicles these sad and often disturbing realities with a subtle sense of humor that never minimizes the tragedy, yet allows them to breathe more fluidly in the readers mind.
Most of these accounts we may have heard of, others perhaps not as much. All of them deserve an intimate look if we are to be considered educated and understanding individuals in a globally interactive environment. You may not be amazed or shocked at what you discover in the reporting in Journalism, although I would find that hard to believe, but, I doubt you will again look at the world and the reaches of humanity with the same eyes again. Quite possibly you will be urged to act and at the very least have temptation upon further discovery.
Other Sacco titles available are: Palestine, Footnotes in Gaza, But I Like It, Notes from a Defeatist, The Fixer: A Story from Sarajevo, War’s End: Profiles from Bosnia 1995-96, Safe Area Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-95
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May 22, 2013 Rand rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: comix, history, india, travel, africa

Overall, a heart-rending rendering of humanity in distress at every corner of the globe.

The section on the African migrants in Malta will make you weep. Hell, so will every other story in here, just about. Especially the Dalits in Indian (the "untouchables") who have been disenfranchised for generations. The Iraq parts are brutal also.

I read this as a work of art, not "factual reporting". While Sacco claims to have attained a level of objectivity within the subjective art of illustration, I fou...more

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Oct 16, 2012 Dr Bill rated it 4 of 5 stars

I came later to the planet than my children's generation of those who i have taught in college for the past 25 years. I never dug comics as a kid, thus as an adult don't get the craze ovcer graphic novels. But this is a fascinating book -- true gonzo journalism by Joe Sacco. I read just today from this book his chapter called "The Hague"-War Crimes Trials. Ironically it was day 1 of the testimony of Radovan Karadzic, the man who butchered so many in Bosnia during the wars of succession. Sureal t...more

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Aug 02, 2012 Bro_Pair أعرف rated it 4 of 5 stars

Not as good as his sustained, longer-form works, just owing how uneven the collection is. The Hebron piece is particularly disappointing; the Israeli settlers there are the worst people I've ever met, period, and Sacco reproaches himself for betraying his own instincts and portraying the conflict in that city in a "balanced" fashion. But this is quibbling, somewhat. Sacco is, as always, a brutal and honest self-critic, and the introduction of the book is a well-written argument for his "subjecti...more

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Mar 28, 2013 Indian rated it 4 of 5 stars

Being an avid graphic-novels/comic-book aficionado, this A4-size big-fat book attracted my attention at the graphic-book shelf of Sangeeta-book-shop at Koramngala Bangalore.

After going though it I was filled with pity & rage at the ways of the majority fellow-humans, who since the onset of history has always been at the look-out for exploiting his co-humans, targeting his ire directed at minority community folks (caste/clan/regional/linguist)

This book renders in the form of graphic art, the...more

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Jul 19, 2012 Kenneth E. Harrison, Jr. rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: cultural-studies-and-social-critics, comics

A terrific collection of Joe Sacco's "comics-journalism." Along with Sacco we eavesdrop on the War Crimes Trials at the Hague, visit the Palestinian territories, embed ourselves in the Chechen and Iraq wars, are introduced to the refugee situation in Malta, and witness life for the "untouchables" in India. Sacco approaches his particular brand of journalism honestly, fairly and, above all, intimately--and throughout this collection, which includes pieces from 1998 through 2011, we see his style...more

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Jan 14, 2013 Marta rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: comics-and-gns

Sacco's collection of comic journalism includes stories of people downtrodden by war and poverty. In addition to stories from Bosnia, Palestine and Iraq (which have had more attention in mainstream media) there are very interesting explorations of the experiences of African refugees trying to start new lives in unwelcoming Malta (made even more interesting by the fact that Sacco is Maltese and does not shy away from depicting the prejudice of his countrymen) and of low caste rural poor in India...more

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Apr 04, 2013 Sriram rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Comic journalist Joe Sacco travels around the world, recording the stories people tell in his real looking cartoons. This book is a collection of some such cartoon strips. The topics range from the problems faced by the people in war zones of Palestine, Iraq and Chechnya to the war tribunal in Hague after the wars in Yugoslavia to the problems faced by dalits in India. He tries to get the complete story out of the people. He tries to present all sides of the story. The expressions captured in th...more

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Nov 07, 2012 Greg Young rated it 5 of 5 stars

This book is billed as a graphic novel, bit the stories are actually true stories about real events within real conflicts around the real world. Joe Sacco is a journalist who's reported on world conflicts since the Bosnian War, but he presents his stories as comics. While the cartoon element can be distracting initially, Sacco approaches journalism as an interpretive art, capturing the raw emotion of these wars and emotions in a way that words and photographs can't. This is a book for any librar...more

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Feb 11, 2013 Saurabh Yadav rated it 5 of 5 stars

I think this book is ground breaking.
Such realistic and observant illustrations, that it puts you in the situation the author was in, and is a visual treat.
It is a great travelouge and I learnt a lot from this book.
It starts with the Hague, and takes you through Chechnya, Iraq, Malta and India with a fascinating story at every place.
The images make the story stay in the mind, imprinted!
Definitely a great way to get such a story to a wider audience.

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Dec 26, 2012 Spicy T AKA Mr. Tea rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: anthology, graphic-novel, journalism, space

another wonderful work by sacco. this one was vignettes of places sacco has gone to cover stories of oppression and war. I noticed that in this one he doesn't draw himself quite so comically as I noticed in Safe Area: Gorazde. I also liked his small set of notes after each comic to contextualize what was going on at that time with him and his subject matter. Well drawn, great reporting, and the hardback copy is a really nice piece of coffee table material.

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Dec 20, 2012 Edmund Davis-Quinn rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: library, graphic-novels, minerva

Good and often difficult reporting.

I do think Sacco is at his best with book length journalism but a very solid work.

The story about poverty in India, refugees in Chechnya, and about African immigrants in Malta were particularly good.

Joe Sacco is one of the best journalists working in the world today. I wish more journalists were able to show themselves in their work, it leads to richer journalism.

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Dec 05, 2012 Gabe rated it 4 of 5 stars

Not quite a 4 really, just shy of that but I rounded up. The book functions as a good argument for covering certain situations with comics journalism. He does a good job of capturing human stories, and when you see the person telling their story, it resonates more, even more than one or two inconic photographs, and certainly more than reading a newspaper story on war-torn [insert country/region here]. I will definitely remember these stories.

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Jul 15, 2012 Mark Schlatter rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: own, author_track

Just sheer genius.

A collection of short works of comics journalism (including the fascinating closing piece, where Sacco returns to his home island of Malta to see the impact of African emigration). As a bonus, you have a forward with Sacco's thoughts on cartoon journalism and text pieces after the short pieces discussing their origins and strengths and weaknesses.

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Oct 02, 2012 Mike rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: comic

I never know what to think about Joe Sacco. One the one hand, he's the only one out there doing work like this. It's important work and he does it well. On the other hand, he only pulls me into a story about half the time. The other half I start to skim, wondering when he's going to get to the point. It's so hard to rate something like this.

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Mar 29, 2013 Sandeep rated it 4 of 5 stars

We need people like Joe Sacco. Like a wave of conscience he sweeps upon us to remind us that what we thought was right, was wrong. That people we label as terrorists have been terrorised. That wars which have been won by a particular group if people have, in reality, been lost by mankind. This is a book to be re-read.

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Nov 25, 2012 John rated it 4 of 5 stars

History may be written by the winners, but Sacco is determined to give the losers a short exposition of their misery. I do not think these pieces work as well as the longer works do: you must jump straight in and start listing infamies and degradations. The people pass in and out of the narrative with little of the time and depth required to make them human beings with lives and dignity, rather than victims leveling charges against those who have wronged them. Sacco does show the collateral dama...more

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Aug 18, 2012 Greg rated it 4 of 5 stars

Brilliantly told, incredibly depressing. Unlike his previous books were you can tell yourself that the horrors that he's reporting are localized to the one story, this collection shows that there's a world of suffering and injustice out there wherever you look.

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Jul 25, 2012 Deja . rated it 5 of 5 stars

social commentary comics. i already love political cartoons but this less political cartoons and more depictions of the stories that get lost in our political conflicts. depicts the human consequances of ideologies. raw and real.keep going back to read it.

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Feb 18, 2013 Oscar Suescun rated it 5 of 5 stars

The incomparable Joe Sacco of always, this time even more marvelous, because this time we start to see with our own eyes through his drawings the plight of many different populations other than the Palestinians. A humanitarian jewel.

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Jul 31, 2012 Christina rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: favorites

I read this book in a day, on the fourth of July. If any author could get me to spend all of my holiday reading about Chechen IDPs, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, hunger in India, etc, it is Joe Sacco. Few international relations bulletin or book ever got me half as engaged, shaken from awful awful cynicism toward international crisis, as this book.

It's a collection of works commissioned by magazines and newspapers from years of experience as a graphic journalist, it's amazing, my very favor...more

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Jun 12, 2012 Frank rated it 4 of 5 stars

This book makes my personal problems pale before a realization of how far the human species has to go and the habits it must evolve out of. Sacco woe, with smarts and yes, style. Journalism of the people, by the people and for the people.

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Apr 20, 2013 Sadiq Kazi rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Sheer Brilliance! Couldn't have had a better introduction to the fault-lines - the war zones, the conflict zones of the world from recent times. Empathetic, clear, conscientious. Thank you, Joe Sacco!

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Aug 20, 2012 Josh rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: signed-first, 2012

Brutal and important stuff. I consider myself fairly up on what's happening in the world, but this book is about some of the forgotten peoples out there who suffer daily, but you don't really hear about. For some reason, seeing their faces drawn, telling their stories, is really effecting.

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Joe Sacco was born in Malta on October 2, 1960. At the age of one, he moved with his family to Australia, where he spent his childhood until 1972, when they moved to Los Angeles. He began his journalism career working on the Sunset High School newspaper in Beaverton, Oregon. While journalism was his primary focus, this was also the period of time in which he developed his penchant for humor and sa...more

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