A Better World
Quotes from the Book
I don't remember when exactly I read my first comic book, but I do remember exactly how liberated and subversive I felt as a result.
What becomes of someone who thinks he has all the power... and what becomes of someone who believes he has none?
Some of the world's blackest holes are out in the open for anyone to see....
A boy standing in the rain, and what is he thinking?
Make no mistake, everywhere you go, not just in Marvel Comics, there's parallel universes...Here? On the surface streets: traffic, couples in love, falafel-to-go, tourists in jogging suits licking stamps for postcards... And over the wall behind closed doors: other things-people strapped to chairs, sleep deprivation, the smell of piss...other things happening for "reasons of national security
Americans care more about the rights of animals than about what happens to us!
I'm numbed by so many accounts of incarceration that the sort of thing that raises my brow is a male in his mid-20s who hasn't been arrested...
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About Joe Sacco
About the book
Prior to Safe Area Gorazde: The War In Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995—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 1996.
Fantagraphics Books is pleased to present the first single-volume collection of this 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. Like Safe Area Gorazde, Palestine has been favorably compared to Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus for its ability to brilliantly navigate such socially and politica
Book details
- First published
- 1996
- Author
- Joe Sacco
- Genre
- Nonfiction
- Goodreads rating
- 4.26 (22k ratings)
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