Joe Sacco is een pionier van de grafische reportage, die zich via zijn kenmerkende artistieke medium verdiept in complexe politieke kwesties en menselijke ervaringen. Zijn werk wordt gekenmerkt door een diepe betrokkenheid bij reizen, die hij gebruikt als een lens om ondervertegenwoordigde verhalen te verkennen. Sacco construeert zijn reportages door middel van persoonlijke interviews en nauwgezet onderzoek, waarbij hij lezers een rauw en ongefilterd perspectief op de werkelijkheid biedt. Zijn satirische en humoristische stijl, die hij vroeg in zijn carrière ontwikkelde, voegt een boeiende dimensie toe aan zijn uitdagende onderwerpen.
A brilliantly illustrated survey of the international comic book landscape over the past sixty years. Published to accompany a major exhibition at Centre Pompidou, Paris in May 2024, this is a timely reframing of the international comics landscape over the past six decades. For the first time, this survey establishes a dialogue between the three leading regions of comic book cul[Bokinfo].
"A 24-foot-long black-and-white drawing printed on heavyweight accordian-fold paper and packaged in a deluxe hardcover slipcase. The set also includes a 16-page booklet featuring an essay about the first day of the Battle of the Somme by Adam Hochschild and original annotations to the drawing by Sacco himself."
A graphic novel based on the author's 1995-96 visits to Gorazde, one of the U.N.-created "safe areas" in Eastern Bosnia, showing the brutality and humanity that coexisted there during the Bosnian War of 1992-95.
The Dene have lived in the vast Mackenzie River Valley since time immemorial, by their account. To the Dene, the land owns them, not the other way around-it is central to their livelihood and their very way of being. But the subarctic Canadian Northwest Territories are also home to valuable natural resources, including oil, gas and diamonds. With mining came jobs and investment-but also road-building, pipelines and toxic waste, which scarred the landscape, and alcohol, drugs, and debt, which deformed a way of life. In Paying the Land, Joe Sacco travels the frozen North to reveal a people struggling with the ambiguous wages of development and the incalculable toll of a pitiless colonial lecacy. Against a vast and gorgeous landscape that dwarfs all human scale, Paying the land lends an ear to trappers and chiefs, activists and priests, telling a sweeping story about money and dependency, loss and culture, with stunning visual detail by one of the greatest comic's reporters alive.
1995 endete eine dunkle Episode der europäischer Geschichte, der Bosnienkrieg. Anhand dreier Reportage-Comics zeichnet Joe Sacco ein vielschichtiges Bild von Sarajevo am Ende des Bosnienkrieges: Neven, Der Fixer, schlug sich vor dem Krieg als Waffenhändler und Bankräuber durch und diente als Waffenexperte und Scharfschütze in der jugoslawischen Armee, ehe er in Sarajevo als Guide für Journalisten arbeitet. Dank Nevens Hilfe gelingt es Sacco, Opfer und Täter des Krieges zu interviewen. Soba hingegen ist ein depressiver Maler und Musiker, dessen Tätigkeit als Tretminenleger an der Front um Sarajevo ihn in seinen Träumen verfolgt und der nun orientierungslos durch die Trümmer seines Lebens irrt. Er führt Sacco kurz vor Kriegsende 1995 durch die Nachtclubs und Bars von Sarajevo, wo der Comic-Journalist auf eine desillusionierte Generation kriegsversehrter Jugendlicher stößt. In Weihnachten mit Karadzic versucht Joe Sacco zusammen mit einem Radioreporter, den heute als Kriegsverbrecher angeklagten Radovan Karadzic vor ein Mikrophon zu bekommen. Nach einer Odyssee durch den serbischen Teil Bosniens begegnen die beiden ihm schließlich ausgerechnet vor einer Kirche.
Joe Sacco is renowned for his non-fiction books of comics journalism like Palestine, Safe Area Gorazde and Footnotes in Gaza. Now in Bumf he returns to his early days as a satirist and underground cartoonist. In the vein of the old underground comix like ZAP or Weirdo, Bumf will be puerile, disgusting, and beyond redemption. It will go where it wants to go, and do what it wants to do. It will also be very funny.
THE COMPLETE SOFTCOVER COLLECTION OF BOSNIAN WAR SHORT STORIES FROM THE AUTHOR OF PALESTINE AND SAFE AREA GORAŽDEUsing old-fashioned pen and paper, the award-winning cartoonist Joe Sacco reports from the sidelines of wars around the world. The Fixer and Other Stories is a new softcover that collects Sacco’s landmark short stories on the Bosnian War that previously comprised the hardcover editions of The Fixer and War’s End.
Named a Best Book of the Year by Amazon.com and the Washington PostThree years ago, Pulitzer Prize–winner Chris Hedges and award-winning cartoonist and journalist Joe Sacco set out to take a look at the sacrifice zones, those areas in America that have been offered up for exploitation in the name of profit, progress, and technological advancement. They wanted to show in words and drawings what life looks like in places where the marketplace rules without constraints, where human beings and the natural world are used and then discarded to maximize profit. Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt is the searing account of their travels.
Der 1. Juli 1916 markiert den ersten Tag der Schlacht an der Somme, die als verlustreichste Schlacht des Ersten Weltkriegs in die Geschichte einging - allein am ersten Kampftag fielen etwa 20000 Soldaten. Joe Sacco vermittelt uns in seinem sieben Meter langen Panoramabild - Stunde nach Stunde aufgezeichnet - einen Eindruck der blutigen Ereignisse, begleitet von einem Text des amerikanischen Historikers Adam Hochschild, der uns den Ablauf dieses schrecklichen Tages chronologisch schildert.
In my view, that is part of its message' - from the preface by Joe SaccoOver the past decade, Joe Sacco has increasingly turned to short-form com-ics journalism to report from conflict zones around the world.
