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Overview: The Comics of Joe Sacco: Journalism in a Visual World addresses the range of his award-winning work, from his early comics stories as well as his groundbreaking journalism Palestine (1993) and Safe Area Gorazde (2000) to Footnotes in Gaza (2009) and the The Great War (2013), a graphic history of World War One.
This volume explores Sacco’s comics journalism and features established and emerging scholars from comics studies, cultural studies, geography, literary studies, political science and communication studies. Sacco’s work has already found a place in some of the foundational scholarship in comics studies and this book solidifies his role as one of the most important comics artists today.
Sections focus on how Sacco’s comics journalism critiques and employs the standard of objectivity in mainstream reporting, what aesthetic principles and approaches to lived experience can be found in his comics, how Sacco employs the space of the comics page to map history and war and the ways that his comics function in the classroom and as human rights activism. The Comics of Joe Sacco: Journalism in a Visual World offers definitive, exciting approaches to some of the most important and necessary comics today, by one of the most acclaimed journalist-artists of our time.
Genre: Non-Fiction > General
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