6/29/2023 0 Comments Footnotes in Gaza by Joe Sacco![]() ![]() With the first book, Sacco, a young journalism student, combined for the first time in comics his own subjectivity with autobiographical ‘gonzo’ journalism, in the style of Hunter S. Sixteen years separate the initial publication in comic book form of Palestine, started in 1993 at Fantagraphics Books, and the new graphic novel published in 2009, Footnotes In Gaza, the two graphic novels by Joe Sacco about Palestine. ![]() So I thought I’d translate it for you here. I’m pleased that this article has just appeared in print in the collection of conference papers, Lignes de front: Bande Dessinée et totalitarisme, under the direction of Viviane Alary and Benoît Mitaine, published in French by Editions Médicine et Hygiène-Georg. I was asked to write and present a paper in French about Joe Sacco, which was a bit scary but overall seemed to go well. On two evenings, we also enjoyed fascinating presentations by Benoît Peeters on Tintin and Emmanuel Guibert on his brilliant biographical albums. Scholars and practitioners including Antonio Altarriba, Pierre Fresnault-Deruelle, Antonio Martin and Jacques Samson convened for three intensive days in the beautiful Normandy chateau of the Centre Culture lnternational de Cerisy-la-Salle, France, on June 8th to 10th, 2010. ![]() Last year, I was privileged to be invited to an academic residential conference on war and totalitarianism in comics, entitled La Guerre dessinée. ![]()
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