Palestine comic journalism by Joe Sacco

[clark-kent]

Joe Sacco headed off to to the Palestinian refugee camps with a few bucks in his pocket, a sketchpad, a little training in how to draw comic books, a rarely used camera (film was too expensive) and a curious mind. Sacco interviewed Palestinians and asked them about all sorts of aspects of their lives: jobs, the intifada, women's rights, Land for Peace, and much more. Sacco turned those interviews into this graphic novel (although Sacco does not like that term much - instead he prefers "comic book journalist").

There is no traditional narrative to this book. Sacco does not turn these interviews into a large over-arching history of the Palestininan people. Instead, it is like reading a series of illustrated interviews. This gives the reader the feeling that he or she is there sitting right there with Sacco talking and drinking green tea in the camps. In a way, the story would be better if he had tried to make an illustrated history, but, in the end, I think this is a more powerful presentation. Imagine "based on real events" movie vs. a documentary and you get the idea.

Sacco occassional touches on the topic of who is right and who is wrong in this book. It does carry a pro-Palestinian slant (it was designed to be that way - I have no idea where Sacco's real sympathies lie), but it does not hammer on those issues.

Not a fun book, but an important one. Strongly recommended for anyone interested in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, no matter which side you come down
Torrent file from pirate bay not concen for all those who can't get in there.
http://torrents.thepiratebay.org/364679 ... PB.torrent
program to view comic
http://www.geocities.com/davidayton/CDisplay
I will be seeding this for awhile

[Ralph Furely]

hmmm  ill take a ganer

[clark-kent]

thanx ralph I think you'll find it interesting

[Canard]

grabbing now thanks for the link

[Ralph Furely]

yea that was supposed to say 'gander'.  anyhoo, how do you switch pages with this CDisplay thing?  
im just on the cover or 1st page but cant figure out how to change pages.

is this child proofed??

[Canard]

yea that was supposed to say 'gander'.  anyhoo, how do you switch pages with this CDisplay thing?  
im just on the cover or 1st page but cant figure out how to change pages.

is this child proofed??

Page down, btw where are you going to add a mister furley av?
Here's some I pulled up from the beloved google's image search;

[clark-kent]

Page up as the duck said,space bar,or the wheel on the mouse if you have one. if you hit c you can configure how the page looks on your screen. right mouse click will give you other options. btw have you gotten it yet canard I didn't have uTorrent on last night so I wasn't seeding it, there is someone else seeding, but its slow, I've started so it should be faster now.