Palestine First Edition States Joe Sacco Edward Said by Joe Sacco, Edward Said 9781560974321, 156097432X instant download after payment.

Prior to Safe Area Gorazde: The War In Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995 — Joe Sacco's breakthrough novel of graphic journalism — the acclaimed author was best known for Palestine, a two-volume graphic novel that won an American Book Award in 1996. 

Fantagraphics Books is pleased to present the first single-volume collection of this landmark of journalism & the art form of comics. Based on several months of research & an extended visit to the West Bank & Gaza Strip in the early 1990s (where he conducted over 100 interviews with Palestinians & Jews), Palestine was the first major comics work of political & historical nonfiction by Sacco, whose name has since become synonymous with this graphic form of New Journalism.

Like Safe Area Gorazde, Palestine has been favourably compared to Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus for its ability to brilliantly navigate such socially & politically sensitive subject matter within the confines of the comic book medium. Sacco has often been called the first comic book journalist, & he is certainly the best. 

This edition of Palestine also features an introduction from  author, critic, & historian Edward Said (Peace & Its Discontents & The Question of Palestine), one of the world's most respected authorities on the Middle Eastern conflict. 

Black-&-white comics throughout

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Joe Sacco is the author of Footnotes in Gaza, for which he received an Eisner Award & the Ridenhour Book Prize, as well as Palestine, Journalism, Safe Area Goražde (also an Eisner winner), & other books. His works have been translated into 14 languages & his comics reporting has appeared in Details, The New York Times Magazine, Time, & Harpers.