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Fixer : A story from Sarajevo by Joe Sacco
$44.95 AUD
Category: Display & Gift
In his remarkable new book Joe Sacco returns to Bosnia, the setting for his first masterpiece, Safe Area Gorazde. In 2001 he went back to Sarajevo to meet up with his old 'fixer', an army veteran called Neven who, for the right price, could arrange anything for the visiting journalist. Sacco gradually r ...Show more
Footnotes in Gaza by Joe Sacco
$59.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Rafah, a town at the southernmost tip of the Gaza Strip, is a squalid place. Raw concrete buildings front rubbish-strewn alleys. The narrow streets are crowded with young children and unemployed men. Situated on the border with Egypt, swaths of Rafah have been reduced to rubble. Rafah is today and has a ...Show more
Journalism by Joe Sacco
$49.99 AUD
Category: Graphic Novels
"The blessing of an inherently interpretive medium like comics is that it hasn't allowed me to...make a virtue of dispassion. For good or for ill, the comics medium is adamant, and it has forced me to make choices. In my view, that is part of its message." (from the preface by Joe Sacco). Over the past ...Show more
Notes from a Defeatist by Joe Sacco
$24.95 AUD
Category: Graphic Novels
Collects the entirety of the author's earlier journalistic and autobiographical work. This book also includes a view of an American punk band's eventful European tour, a reminiscence of an awful season spent in his native Malta, and more.
Palestine by Joe Sacco
$45.00 AUD
Category: Display & Gift | Reading Level: very good
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.
Paying the Land by Joe Sacco
$39.99 AUD
Category: Graphic Novels
Joe Sacco is famous for his comics journalism set in either the Middle East (Palestine) or Balkans (Safe Area Gorazde), so Paying the Land is a radical new departure for him. In it Sacco travels to Canada's Northwest Territories, a huge, frozen wasteland populated only by the Dene, the indigenous people ...Show more
Safe Area Gorazade by Joe Sacco
$45.00 AUD
Category: Graphic Novels
In late 1995 and early 1996, cartoonist/reporter Joe Sacco travelled four times to Gorazde, a UN-designated safe area during the Bosnian War. Still surrounded by Bosnian Serb forces, the mainly Muslim people of Gorazde had endured heavy attacks to hang on to their town. This book presents a snapshot of ...Show more
The Great War by Joe Sacco
$49.99 AUD
Category: Graphic Novels
The Great War July 1, 1916: The First Day of the Battle of the Somme. It is an illustrated panorama with an essay by Adam Hochschild. "Sacco's work [is] the best argument around for comics as a journalistic medium". (GQ). Launched on July 1, 1916, the Battle of the Somme has come to epitomize the madnes ...Show more
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