Ebook {Epub PDF} Palestine by Joe Sacco

 · Prior to Safe Area Gorazde: The War In Eastern Bosnia —Joe Sacco's breakthrough novel of graphic journalism—the acclaimed author was best known for Palestine, a two-volume graphic novel that won an American Book Award in Brand: Fantagraphics Books. Based on several months of research and an extended visit to the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the early s (where he conducted over 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. Sacco's insightful reportage takes place at the /5(11).  · Joe Sacco's Palestine (and his later book on Bosnia called Safe Area Gorazde), is a miracle of observation, compassion and humanity. It does what most books, most newspapers fail to do, illustrate the plight of Palestinian people, show us why they are angry, and why some are driven to terrifying acts of suicide.5/5(5).

Joe Sacco was born in Malta. He graduated from the University of Oregon with a degree in journalism. His comic book, Palestine, won an American Book Award in , and his graphic novel, Safe Area. Palestine is a journalistic graphic novel about Joe Sacco's journey to Israel and Palestine in and Sacco is a Maltese-American citizen schooled in journalism and art. Equipped with this education, he aims to produce a work that offers an authentic take on the Palestinian refugee crisis and investigates the pro-Israel narrative he has. Writer: Joe Sacco. Artist: Joe Sacco. Publication date: - Status: Completed. Views: 65, Bookmark. Prior to Safe Area Gorazde: The War In Eastern Bosnia —Joe Sacco's breakthrough novel of graphic journalism—the acclaimed author was best known for Palestine, a two-volume graphic novel that won an American Book Award in.

Joe Sacco's Palestine (and his later book on Bosnia called Safe Area Gorazde), is a miracle of observation, compassion and humanity. It does what most books, most newspapers fail to do, illustrate the plight of Palestinian people, show us why they are angry, and why some are driven to terrifying acts of suicide. Prior to Safe Area Gorazde: The War In Eastern Bosnia —Joe Sacco's breakthrough novel of graphic journalism—the acclaimed author was best known for Palestine, a two-volume graphic novel that won an American Book Award in Palestine is a journalistic graphic novel about Joe Sacco's journey to Israel and Palestine in and Sacco is a Maltese-American citizen schooled in journalism and art. Equipped with this education, he aims to produce a work that offers an authentic take on the Palestinian refugee crisis and investigates the pro-Israel narrative he has heard all his life. The graphic novel opens in Cairo where Sacco is en route to Palestine.