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Joe Sacco
Joe Sacco’s comic book journalism captures the human elements in disaster, bringing the world’s worst phenomena–war, political oppression, genocide–into a perspective that the average American can...
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“The Unwanted”— Joe Sacco
Read Joe Sacco’s comic “The Unwanted” at The Guardian. As usual, Sacco approaches a complex problem at the human level in his story about African immigration to Malta. Go here for more on Joe Sacco,...
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“Portrait of the Cartoonist as a Dog Owner”— Joe Sacco
In this week’s New York Times, cartoonist Joe Sacco is a little less serious than usual. Just a little. Tagged: Comics, Dogs, Joe Sacco
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The AV Club Interviews Comix Journalist Joe Sacco
The AV Club interviews Biblioklept fave Joe Sacco, whose books Palestine and Safe Area Goražde should be required reading for any thinking person. Sacco explores some of the messiest, ugliest terrains...
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Reading Chris Ware’s Building Stories / Disconnect
“Disconnect,” one of the longer episodes in Chris Ware’s novel Building Stories, serves as a reminder of Ware’s strength as a prose writer. Wordiness tends to kill illustrated storytelling, at least...
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RIP Kim Thompson
RIP Kim Thompson, 1956-2013. I probably first got to know Kim Thompson’s name through the editorial and letters pages of Dave Sim’s long-running black and white comic Cerebus. Sim had this marvelous...
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Eddie Campbell’s canon of great graphic novels, 1977-2001
Eddie Campbell’s book Alec: How to Be an Artist (Eddie Campbell Comics, 2001) covers the “rise and fall of the graphic” over the course of a few decades. Alec combines memoir with art history and art...
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