Books Details
Author : Daniel Worden Pages : 294 pages Publisher : University Press of
Mississippi Language : ISBN-10 : 1496814703 ISBN-13 : 9781496814708
Books Descriptions
Named a Notable Scholarly Publication of 2015 by the Comics Studies
SocietyContributions by Georgiana Banita, Lan Dong, Ann D'Orazio, Kevin C.
Dunn, Alexander Dunst, Jared Gardner, Edward C. Holland, Isabel Macdonald,
Brigid Maher, Ben Owen, Rebecca Scherr, Maureen Shay, Marc Singer, Richard
Todd Stafford, and ?yvind V?gnesThe Comics of Joe Sacco addresses the range
of his award-winning work, from his early comics stories as well as his
groundbreaking journalism Palestine (1993) and Safe Area to Gorazde (2000), to
Footnotes in Gaza (2009) and his most recent book The Great War (2013), a
graphic history of World War I.First in the series, Critical Approaches to Comics
Artists, this edited volume explores Sacco's comics journalism and features
established and emerging scholars from comics studies, cultural studies,
geography, literary studies, political science, and communication studies.
Sacco's work has already found a place in some of the foundational scholarship
in comics studies,
