Journalism
  • Published: 15 June 2018
  • ISBN: 9781787331303
  • Imprint: Jonathan Cape
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $45.00

Journalism

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Shortlisted in the 2012 Angoulême Official Selection, a collection of comics journalism spanning conflict zones across the globe, from the inimitable Joe Sacco

‘The blessing of an inherently interpretive medium like comics is that it hasn't allowed 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. In my view, that is part of its message’ – from the preface by Joe Sacco

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 international 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 sub-Saharan refugees washed up on the shores of Malta. Sacco also 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 endeavour. Among Sacco's most mature and accomplished work, Journalism demonstrates the power of a great comics artist to chronicle lived experience with a force that often eludes other media.
  • Published: 15 June 2018
  • ISBN: 9781787331303
  • Imprint: Jonathan Cape
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $45.00
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About the author

Joe Sacco

Joe Sacco, one of the world's greatest cartoonists, is widely hailed as the creator of war reportage comics. He is the author of, among other books, Palestine, which received the American Book Award, and Safe Area: Goražde, which won the Eisner Award and was named a New York Times notable book and Time magazine's best comic book of 2000. His books have been translated into fourteen languages and his comics reporting has appeared in Details, The New York Times Magazine, Time, Harper's and the Guardian. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

Also by Joe Sacco

Paying the Land
Bumf
Footnotes in Gaza
Safe Area Gorazde
The Fixer
Notes From A Defeatist
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Praise for Journalism

Collected here for the first time, Sacco’s darkly funny, revealing reportage confirms his standing as one of the foremost war correspondents working today.

Military Technology

It is clear that Sacco is one of the masters of his craft.

Alex Hern, New Statesman

One of the most original cartoonists of the past two decades.

Guardian

Sacco is formidably talented. A meticulous reporter…and a gifted artist whose richly nuanced drawings tread a delicate path between cartoonishness and naturalism.

Independent

Joe Sacco's brilliant, excruciating books of war reportage are potent territory... He shows how much that is crucial to our lives a book can hold.

New York Times Book Review

Moving and informative.

Rachel Cooke, Observer

As reportage, these pieces are as evocative as documentary film, and yet, drawn in Sacco’s calm, simple lines, as restrained, characterful and understated as the very best journalism.

Robert Collins, Sunday Times

Pretty much the hands-down boss of his particular corner of contemporary literature.

Stuart Hammond, Dazed & Confused
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