Word: sacco
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...known that one of the first books about the war in Afghanistan came from a cartoonist. Ted Rall's "To Afghanistan and Back" (NBM Publishing; 112pp.; $15.95) describes itself as a "graphic travelogue" but belongs in the milieu of war-torn foreign correspondence trail blazed by Joe Sacco's "Palestine" and "Safe Area Gorazde." Unlike those carefully rendered books, however, Rall's has come out quick and dirty, like a dispatch from the front lines of an on-going war. Rall, a syndicated political cartoonist whose weekly "Search and Destroy" appears in alterna-papers, felt the only way to discover...
...JIMMY CORRIGAN: SMARTEST KID ON EARTH" BY CHRIS WARE AND "SAFE AREA GORAZDE" BY JOE SACCO ACHIEVE NEW HEIGHTS IN THE ART FORM, GAINING WIDESPREAD RECOGNITION. "GHOST WORLD" AND "FROM HELL" MOVIES BASED ON NONSUPERHERO COMICS, APPEAR...
...Comics Journal Special Edition: Winter 2002" (Fantagraphics Books; 156pp.; $29.95) has "Cartoonists on Cartooning" as the theme. This applies mostly to the second half of the book which consists of comix -- or the "carrot" part. "The stick," written essays, histories and an interview with Joe Sacco, author of "Safe Area Gorazde," has been smartly designed to introduce newcomers to critical writing about comix. It reads like a "Comics Journal" for beginners, which has both good and bad points...
...centerpiece of the book, an interview with Joe Sacco, should not be missed. Traveling to Palestine and the former Yugoslavia Sacco has pioneered a new kind of journalism that uses comix to visualize dramatic, personal stories that otherwise had no documentation. Focusing on his trips to Bosnia, the basis for his remarkable "Safe Area Gorazde," the interview works simultaneously as thumbnail history of the Balkans crises and how an artist, particularly a comix artist, works. "To me the challenge of it, the art it," Sacco says," is getting people to care by making those characters human. And that's done...
...real money is for many publishers, so there are lots of them. Fantagraphics has got Dan Clowes' "20th Century Eightball" (September), collecting whatever has never been collected before from his "Eightball" series; Gilbert Hernandez' "Luba in America Book 1," collecting the first five issues of "Luba" (September); and Joe Sacco's "Palestine" (September), which used to be two volumes of this war reporter's groundbreaking work. Also look out for Debbie Dreschler's wonderful coming-of-age story, "Summer of Love," which reprints the "Nowhere" series by Drawn and Quarterly (September...