An Interview with Joe Sacco. Joe Sacco is both a journalist and a cartoonist. He’s widely credited with creating his own genre: investigative war comics. “Visual material married with words can provide a lot of information,” he says. “It can be very hard hitting and drag the reader into some seriously dark places.” Sacco is not afraid of going to dark places and frequently sets his readers in war-torn locations such as Bosnia and Palestine. Through words and drawings, Sacco depicts the heartbreaking, traumatic, and humanizing day-to-day details that mainstream journalism so often ignores. His books include Palestine, which won the American Book Award, Safe Area Gorazde, and his most recent, Footnotes in Gaza. His comics and reporting can also be found in publications such as Harper’s, The Guardian, and The New York Times Magazine. Q: How did you get into comics? Joe Sacco: Maybe it’s because my mom was drawing and I’d watch her draw and I liked little comic strips, and you just start mimicking what you like.
'Journalism' by Joe Sacco, 'Jerusalem' by Guy Delisle: Review. In the preface to his new book "Journalism," Joe Sacco pinpoints the challenges of the comics artist who seeks to be a reporter: "Aren't drawings by their very nature subjective? " he asks, before answering with a simple "yes. " And yet, this has been Sacco's point all along, that, in the words of Edward R. Murrow, "Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices — just recognize them.
" The rap on Sacco, of course, is that he is less a journalist than an advocate, who in such works as "Palestine" and "Footnotes in Gaza" blurs the line between observer and activist. That's true, I suppose, in the narrowest sense, but it's also reductive, and with "Journalism," he convincingly refutes the argument. "The blessing of an inherently interpretive medium like comics," he writes, "is that it hasn't allowed me to lock myself within the confines of traditional journalism.... This sense of identification is brought out by Sacco's visual style. Israeli forces unleash attack dogs on Palestinian teens. Two Palestinians teenagers were attacked by Israeli forces, who released attack dogs on them, earlier this week, Ma’an news agency reported on Saturday. According to a lawyer for the Palestinian Authority’s ministry of prisoners’ affairs, Israeli soldiers shot 17-year-old Adam Abdarrouf Jamous and 19-year-old Jawhar Nasser al-Din Halbieh several times at a checkpoint near east Jerusalem on Thursday evening.
Tareq Barghouth said the soldiers opened fire without warning in Jamous and Halbieh’s direction, hitting them with several bullets before setting dogs on them. Barghouth added that the dogs severely mauled Halbieh, inflicting numerous wounds. Israeli forces then kicked, punched and hit the two teens with the butts of their rifles as they them on the ground over several hundred meters. Jamous and Halbieh were seriously wounded and taken to the hospital to treat their multiple fractures and bullet wounds, Ma’an reported. __title__ (Ma’an, Al-Akhbar) Israel Strikes Targets in Gaza. The Roots of Israeli Attack on Gaza. Interview with Joe Sacco: Graphic Journalism and Palestine.