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Fantagraphics announced they have sold through their recent reprint of Joe Sacco's Palestine graphic memoir and are to publish a new edition of the book And also launching a new weekly comic series on TCJ.com, about the current situation entitled The War on Gaza, concerning Palestine, Israel and the United States Of America The first[...]

They even went on NPR with author Joe Sacco to talk about the demand for a 30+-year-old graphic novel, which saw Joe Sacco live and travel through Palestine and record his experiences, the life of Palestinians and Israelis. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see[...]

Fantagraphics has announced a reprinting and a return to stock for Palestine by Joe Sacco, saying; "Back in stock: Palestine, a landmark of journalism and the art form of comics by Joe Sacco, with an introduction from renowned author, critic, and historian Edward Said Based on several months of research and an extended visit to[...]

Joe Sacco is one of America's great graphic novelists, using the medium of comics to tell his world travelling works of reportage journalism from within a variety of communities His most famous work is called, simply, Palestine But it is a word that, apparently, shouldn't have been uttered in a recent interview with Canadian state[...]

Then of course you've got creators like Joe Sacco Palestine is a unique take on the Isreali/Palestinian conflict, and I'm sure I'm not the only person who connected to the stories in that more than what I'd seen on TV for the last twenty years The illustrator/reporter provides a unique perspective: there is an intimacy[...]

Now how many comic conventions have that? All making it a laid back chilled out affair. And to kick off this strand with the organisers managed to secure two of the most interesting and important voices in the graphic medium Chris Ware and Joe Sacco Inspired programming as Ware and Sacco are approaching the medium from[...]

Chris Ware, Joe Sacco, Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison, Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie, Paul Cornell and Posy Simmonds are taking are part in Stripped as part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Other names include Denise Mina, Paul Gravett, Melinda Gebbie, Warren Pleece, Roger Gibson, Chris Riddell, Jon Naught,  Stephen Collins, Robin and Lorenzo Etherington, Robbie Morrison, Jim[...]

It's a start. THE LAKES I've started to be told about names being lined up for October's Lakes Comics Art Festival, an attempt to start to build a very British Angouleme. Patrons Bryan Talbot, Mary Talbot and Sean Phillips of course, but I'm also being told about comics journalist Joe Sacco, author Kurt Busiek, cartoonist Posy Simmonds (who[...]

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Greg Baldino writes for Bleeding Cool A different kind of comic con came to Chicago this past weekend as the University of Chicago hosted Comics: Philosophy and Practice, a three-day academic conference that hosted the biggest names in the history of alternative comics and graphic novels. The roster of guests is literally the Who's Who of[...]

It's rare for a Fanboy Rampage to start out with "You guys are right." But when Kirstin Butler tried to stem criticism that her piece for the Atlantic entitled Comic Books as Journalism: 10 Masterpieces of Graphic Nonfiction did not include any work by Joe Sacco, whether Palestine or Footnotes In Gaza, it didn't quite[...]