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Palestine

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A 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, it is a major work of political and historical nonfiction.

Prior to Safe Area Gorazde: The War In Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995―Joe Sacco’s breakthrough novel of graphic journalism―the acclaimed writer was once 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 once the first major comics work of political and historical nonfiction by Sacco, whose name has since transform synonymous with this graphic form of New Journalism. Like Safe Area Gorazde, Palestine has been favorably in comparison to Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus for its ability to brilliantly navigate such socially and politically sensitive subject matter within the confines of the comic book medium. Sacco has frequently been referred to as the first comic book journalist, and he is certainly the most efficient. This edition of Palestine also features an introduction from renowned writer, critic, and historian Edward Said (Peace and Its Discontents and The Question of Palestine), some of the world’s most respected authorities on the Middle Eastern conflict. Black-and-white comics all the way through


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