Palestine

Description

Combining the techniques of eyewitness reportage with the medium of comic-book storytelling to explore the complex, emotionally weighty subject of Palestine, this one-volume work combines the previously published nine-issue comic series that won a 1996 American Book Award.

Author description

Joe Sacco was born in Malta and lives in Queens, New York. He graduated from the University of Oregon with a degree in journalism. As well as the award-winning Palestine, he is the author of Safe Area- Gorazde, about his time in Bosnia, which won the Will Eisner Award for Best Original Graphic Novel in 2001. In 2001 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship to work on his next project.