Palestine by Joe Sacco

 

A landmark of journalism and the art form of comics. Based on several months of research and an extended visit to the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the early 1990s (where he conducted over 100 interviews with Palestinians and Jews), Palestine was the first major comics work of political and historical nonfiction by Sacco, whose name has since become synonymous with this graphic form of New Journalism. Palestine has been favorably compared to Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus for its ability to brilliantly navigate such socially and politically sensitive subject matter within the confines of the comic book medium. Sacco has often been called the first comic book journalist, and he is certainly the best. - from Amazon.com 

 

 

Critical insights for English Language Learners:

• refugees

• prejudice

• media

• journalism

• religion

• politics

• geography

 

 

Watch an interview with Joe Sacco on graphic journalism and Palestine: