Most Popular Books by Joe Sacco

Follow award-winning cartoon journalist Joe Sacco on one of the most dangerous beats of all: rock ''n'' roll! The centerpiece of the book is an expanded version of "In the Company of Long Hair," the early ''90s graphic novelette Sacco created on the subject of his raucous European tour with the punk band, the Miracle Workers. "Long Hair" appears here for the first time in an expanded version with an added 15-page section of his original sketches and notes from the time, and a bound-in CD featuring an excerpt from the Miracle Workers'' live shows - including a blasting version of the Iggy Pop classic, "I Got a Right." As for the rest of the book: Sacco turns his pitiless pen on all strata of Rock ''n'' Roll, from old rockers (two stories on the Rolling Stones) to new; from salacious gossip to how-to ("Woodstock in your Own Home"); from portraits of typical rock creatures ("Record Producer," "The Musician Who Wanted to Save the World," "The Rock Journalist") to self-deprecating autobiographical stories.

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.

Two 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. The book starts in the western plains, where Native Americans were sacrificed in the giddy race for land and empire. It moves to the old manufacturing centers and coal fields that fueled the industrial revolution, but now lie depleted and in decay. It follows the steady downward spiral of American labor into the nation''s produce fields and ends in Zuccotti Park where a new generation revolts against a corporate state that has handed to the young an economic, political, cultural and environmental catastrophe.

Sacco brings the conflict down to the most human level, allowing us to imagine our way inside it, to make the desperation he discovers, in some small way, our own. Rafah, a town at the bottommost tip of the Gaza Strip, has long been a notorious flashpoint in the bitter Middle East conflict. Buried deep in the archives is one bloody incident, in 1956, that left 111 Palestinians shot dead by Israeli soldiers. Seemingly a footnote to a long history of killing, that day in Rafah cold-blooded massacre or dreadful mistake reveals the competing truths that have come to define an intractable war. In a quest to get to the heart of what happened, Joe Sacco immerses himself in the daily life of Rafah and the neighboring town of Khan Younis, uncovering Gaza past and present. As in Palestine, his unique visual journalism renders a contested landscape in brilliant, meticulous detail. Spanning fifty years, moving fluidly between one war and the next, Footnotes in Gaza transforms a critical conflict of our age into intimate and immediate experience.

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2020 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE GUARDIAN, THE BROOKLYN RAIL, THE GLOBE AND MAIL, POP MATTERS, COMICS BEAT, AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY From the “heir to R. Crumb and Art Spiegelman” (Economist), a masterful work of comics journalism about indigenous North America, resource extraction, and our debt to the natural world 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, and it is central to their livelihood and very way of being. But the subarctic Canadian Northwest Territories are home to valuable 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 in conflict over the costs and benefits of development. The mining boom is only the latest assault on indigenous culture: Sacco recounts the shattering impact of a residential school system that aimed to “remove the Indian from the child”; the destructive process that drove the Dene from the bush into settlements and turned them into wage laborers; the government land claims stacked against the Dene Nation; and their uphill efforts to revive a wounded culture. Against a vast and gorgeous landscape that dwarfs all human scale, Paying the Land lends an ear to trappers and chiefs, activists and priests, to tell a sweeping story about money, dependency, loss, and culture—recounted in stunning visual detail by one of the greatest cartoonists alive.

Collects illustrated, satirical stories about the author''s life, war, politics, and sex, including the tales "Voyage to the End of the Library" and "When Good Bombs Happen to Bad People."

Joe Sacco, born in Brooklyn, New York, currently resides in Montgomery County, Maryland with his wife, five boys and two rescue shelties. He was a science teacher and principal in Montgomery County, Maryland. Currently, he is the Associate Director of Education for Friends of the National Zoo in Washington DC. He was inspired to write this book after a trip to Churchill, Canada. During this trip, he met a large male bear, Dancer. Dancer would like to remind us all that "everyone, regardless of age, can make a difference."

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.

When bombs are falling and western journalism is the only game left in town "fixers" are the people who sell war correspondents the human tragedy and moral outrage that makes news editors happy. It’s dangerous, a little amoral and a lot desperate. Award-winning comix-journalist Joe Sacco goes behind the scene of war correspondence to reveal the anatomy of the big scoop. He begins by returning us to the dying days of Balkan conflict and introduces us to his own fixer; a man looking to squeeze the last bit of profit from Bosnia before the reconstruction begins. Thanks to a complex relationship with the fixer Joe discovers the crimes of opportunistic warlords and gangsters who run the countryside in times of war. But the west is interested in a different spin on the stories coming out of Bosnia. Almost ten years later, Joe meets up with his fixer and sees how the new Bosnian government has "dealt" with these criminals and Joe ponders who is holding the reins of power these days...

A journalistic collection in comic book format from the sid3elines of wars around the world includes articles on the American military in Iraq, the Caucasus widow trials, the dilemmas of India''s "untouchables," and the smuggling tunnels of Gaza.

War cartoonist Sacco visits the Bosnian conflict to uncover the stories that are often ignored or uncovered by traditional media and gives the reader an inside peek at the darkly humorous news process.

On October 7th 2001, US-led forces invaded Afghanistan, marking the start of George Bush and Tony Blair''s "War on Terror." Six years on, where have the policies of Bush and Blair left us? Bringing together some of the finest contemporary writers, this wide-ranging anthology, from reportage and "faction" to fiction, explores the impact of this "long war" throughout the world, from Palestine to Iraq, Abu Ghraib, the curtailment of civil liberties and manipulation of public opinion. Published in conjunction with Stop the War coalition and United for Peace and Justice, War With No End provides an urgent, necessary reflection on the causes and consequences of the ideological War on Terror.

A look at rock and roll culture based on author''s two year visit to Germany. In comic book format.

"En Notas al pie de Gaza, Sacco retoma algunos de los temas que ya describió en Palestina hace casi dos décadas, pero en lugar de centrarse en la situación actual en los territorios palestinos ocupados y los campos de refugiados, echa la vista atrás para desentrañar los hechos oscuros que concluyeron con la matanza de cientos de palestinos civiles a manos de soldados israelíes en noviembre de 1956 en las ciudades de Khan Younis y Rafah. Sacco no es imparcial y no pretende serlo. Habiendo leído Palestina es obvio que sus simpatías están con el pueblo palestino y es su punto de vista y su historia la que el dibujante maltés quiere ofrecer al público. Con la realización de este libro, Sacco pretende por una parte, arrojar luz sobre lo que puede ser haber sido una gran mentira histórica promovida por los israelíes –que la mantaza se produjo ante la resistencia de los palestinos- y al mismo tiempo le interesa excavar hasta dar con las raíces del odio entre los dos pueblos".

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.

A principios de la década de 1990, un joven historietista llamado Joe Sacco decidió viajar por Palestina para documentar sus vivencias bajo la forma artística del cómic. Allí, paseó por mercados, se entrevistó con prisioneros, charló con manifestantes, comió con agricultores, visitó enfermos en los hospitales y, en definitiva, se zambulló en la vida y la cultura de los habitantes de Gaza y Cisjordania. Fruto de aquella apasionante experiencia surgió Palestina, la primera gran obra periodística de Sacco y, a la postre, uno de los mejores trabajos políticos e históricos publicados en los últimos años. Heredera directa del nuevo periodismo y pieza clave de la corriente autoral conocida como periodismo historietístico, esta novela gráfica no solo constituye un excepcional documento etnográfico, una ácida crónica de la época y una visión personalísima sobre un conflicto eternizado, sino también un libro valioso y relevante para entender el papel que Oriente Medio juega ahora, al igual que entonces, en la geopolítica contemporánea. Mediante la presente publicación, Planeta Cómic rinde justo homenaje a esta obra mítica. Además de las 288 páginas del cómic original, traducidas y rotuladas nuevamente para la ocasión, este volumen incluye todos los extras de la edición especial anglosajona: una introducción a cargo del añorado Edward Said, ingentes cantidades de material inédito -notas, bocetos, referencias fotográficas- y una amplia disertación documental en la que el propio Joe Sacco relata todas las aventuras, anécdotas y curiosidades que vivió durante la preparación, el transcurso y el regreso de su odisea.

In late 1991 and early 1992, Joe Sacco spent two months with Palestinians in the Occupied Territories, traveling and taking notes. Upon returning to the U.S., he started writing and drawing Palestine, which combined the techniques of eyewitness reportage with the medium of comic-book storytelling to explore this complex, emotionally weighty situation.

De la réserve indienne de Pine Ridge dans le Dakota aux militants d''Occupy Wall Street, Joe Sacco et Chris Hedges ont parcouru les zones sinistrées des USA. Ils dressent un constat terrible des conséquences d''un capitalisme décomplexé sur les laissés-pour-compte du système, dans un pays dont le taux de pauvreté est le plus élevé des pays industrialisés.

Joe Sacco ya es ampliamente conocido por sus anteriores obras, Gorazde: Zona Protegida y Palestina: En la Franja de Gaza, ambos publicadas en la Colección Trazado de Planeta DeAgostini en las que el autor mezcla hábilmente el reportaje periodístico con la forma narrativa del cómic para dar un reflejo lo más fiel posible de situaciones conflictivas. En esta ocasión, Sacco se centra en un único personaje: Neven, un mediador capaz de conseguir contactos e informaciones interesantes para los periodistas. La historia, las historias de Neven, muchas veces desafían lo creíble y su persona se nos hace compleja y ambigua en más de un caso, pero la presencia de este tipo de personajes es inherente a las zonas de conflicto, e indispensable para los periodistas en busca de contactos e información. Un retrato magistral de otro aspecto de la guerra por el inigualable Joe Sacco, ganador de varios premios por su obra.

Durant l''hiver 1991-1992, un journaliste américain ayant choisi le dessin pour s''exprimer, Joe Sacco, visite Jérusalem, la Cisjordanie et Gaza où se déroule la première Intifada. Découvrant la réalité brutale de l''occupation israélienne, il la dénonce vigoureusement dans ce qui est devenu une BD culte depuis. A l''heure de la seconde Intifada et de ses centaines de victimes, ce livre reste, plus que jamais, d''une actualité brûlante.

Do mesmo autor de Notas sobre Gaza e Palestina . Uma impactante investigação sobre os povos originários da América, a exploração de recursos naturais e a dívida de todos nós com a terra. Eleito o livro do ano em 2020 pelo Guardian e pelo New York Times . Os Dene vivem no vasto vale do rio Mackenzie, no noroeste do Canadá, desde tempos imemoriais. A terra é o elemento central do seu modo de vida, e acreditam, como em muitas outras culturas nativas, que são eles que pertencem à terra e não o contrário. Mas a região onde vivem abriga valiosos recursos minerais: petróleo, gás e diamantes. Com a mineração vieram empregos e investimentos, mas também a abertura de estradas, os resíduos tóxicos, a construção de oleodutos. Tudo isso afetou de modo brusco o lugar, e os costumes são a cada dia mais deformados por um governo que reivindica a posse da terra, por um sistema educacional que não leva em conta as tradições nativas, pelos estragos do alcoolismo e pela tragédia das dívidas bancárias que só crescem. Da mais importante voz do jornalismo em quadrinhos, Pagar a terra coloca em foco uma galeria variada de personagens — caçadores, chefes indígenas, ativistas, sacerdotes, entre outros –— para narrar uma história brutal sobre o poder do dinheiro, sua dependência, um povo em conflito com o dito progresso, a extinção de uma cultura e sua luta pela sobrevivência.

Quinze ans après la publication de son premier livre, Palestine une nation occupée, Joe Sacco retourne dans la bande de Gaza pour enquêter sur un massacre de la population palestinienne par l''armée israélienne en 1956.