"Amazon Best Books of the Month, June 2012: From the dusty plains of North Dakota to the coal-veined hills of West Virginia to the desolate and ravaged streets of Camden N.J., Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges and award-winning cartoonist/journalist Joe Sacco introduce us to the nation's "sacrifice zones"--those regions where, in the authors' view, corporate greed has run wild, and the locals have suffered. A unique mashup of investigat ..."
The Great War(1st Edition) July 1, 1916: The First Day of the Battle of the Somme by JoeSacco, Adam Hochschild Hardcover, 54 Pages, Published 2013 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-08880-9, ISBN: 0-393-08880-4
"From “the heir to R. Crumb and Art Spiegelman” (Economist) comes a monumental, wordless depiction of the most infamous day of World War I.Launched on July 1, 1916, the Battle of the Somme has come to epitomize the madness of the First World War. Almost 20,000 British soldiers were killed and another 40,000 were wounded that first day, and there were more than one million casualties by the time the offensive halted. In The Great War, acc ..."
Notes From a Defeatist by JoeSacco Paperback, 216 Pages, Published 2003 by Fantagraphics ISBN-13: 978-1-56097-510-6, ISBN: 1-56097-510-5
"A collection of comic book journalist Joe Sacco's best shorter pieces. Before Joe Sacco crafted his two major works of "cartoon journalism," Palestine and Safe Area Gorazde, he created a number of shorter pieces, ranging from one-page gags to 30-page "graphic novelettes." This massive book finally collects the entirety of Sacco's earlier journalistic and autobiographical work, plus a sizable serving of his satirical strips, many of them ..."
Bumf Vol. 1(1st Edition) I Buggered The Kaiser by JoeSacco Paperback, 120 Pages, Published 2014 by Fantagraphics ISBN-13: 978-1-60699-748-2, ISBN: 1-60699-748-3
"This is a collection of all-new satirical short comics by Joe Sacco (Palestine, Footnotes in Gaza). In the vein of the old underground comix like ZAP or Weirdo, author Joe Sacco promises that BUMF will go where it needs to go, and do what it needs to do.” Though world-famous for his serious, journalistic books like Palestine, Safe Area Gorazde, and Footnotes in Gaza, Bumf promises to echo back to Sacco’s earlier days as a satirist and u ..."
War's End(1st Edition) Profiles From Bosnia 1995-1996 by JoeSacco Hardcover, 80 Pages, Published 2005 by Drawn And Quarterly ISBN-13: 978-1-896597-92-8, ISBN: 1-896597-92-0
"War cartoonist Joe Sacco visits the Bosnian conflict to uncover the stories that are often ignored or uncovered by traditional media.How does an artist reconcile being forced to go to the front line of a brutal conflict that will change his life and homeland forever? What happens when a reporter finally comes face-to-face with an evil war criminal? Before his groundbreaking graphic novels Safe Area Gorazde and The Fixer, Palestinian aut ..."
"Seeking new definitions of ecology in the tar sands of northern Alberta and searching for the sweetness of life in the face of planetary crises.Confounded by global warming and in search of an affirmative politics that links ecology with social change, Matt Hern and Am Johal set off on a series of road trips to the tar sands of northern Alberta―perhaps the world's largest industrial site, dedicated to the dirty work of extracting oil fr ..."
Journalism(1st Edition) by JoeSacco Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2013 by Metropolitan Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-9793-1, ISBN: 0-8050-9793-7
""The images Sacco draws are so powerful that they burn deep into your retina and reconfigure how you see the world... "Journalism" displays Sacco at the top of his game."--"National Post" (Toronto)Over the past decade, Joe Sacco has increasingly turned to short-form comics journalism to report from conflict zones around the world. Collected here for the first time, Sacco's darkly funny, revealing reportage confirms his standing as one o ..."
"Fantagraphics Books is pleased to present, for the first time, a single-volume collection of this 288-page landmark of journalism and the artform of comics. Interest in Sacoo has never been higher than with the release of his critically acclaimed book, Safe Area Gorazde. Based on several months of research and an extended visit to the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the early 1990s (where he conducted over 100 interviews with Palestinia ..."
Footnotes in Gaza (Paperback) by JoeSacco Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 2019 by Jonathan Cape ISBN-13: 978-1-78733-201-0, ISBN: 1-78733-201-2
"This is a sweeping, original investigation of a forgotten crime in the most vexed of places."
Paying the Land (Hardcover) by JoeSacco Hardcover, 1 Pages, Published 2017 by Random House Uk ISBN-13: 978-1-910702-58-1, ISBN: 1-910702-58-7
"Joe Sacco’s best-selling follow-up to Palestine is now available in a special edition, at a special price. In the wake of his acclaimed Palestine, Joe Sacco spent four months in Bosnia in 1995-1996, immersing himself in the human side of life during wartime, researching stories rarely found in conventional news coverage. The book focuses on the Muslim enclave of Gorazde, which was besieged by Bosnian Serbs during the war; Sacco spent fo ..."
The Fixer and Other Stories(1st Edition) by JoeSacco Paperback, 216 Pages, Published 2009 by Drawn And Quarterly ISBN-13: 978-1-897299-90-6, ISBN: 1-897299-90-7
"Language:Chinese.Paperback. Pub Date: 2009 Pages: 173 Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly THE COMPLETE Softcover Collection OF BOSNIAN WAR SHORT STORIES FROM THE AUTHOR OF Palestine AND SAFE AREA GORA?DEUsing old-fashioned pen and Paper the award- winning cartoonist Joe Sacco reports from the sidelines of wars around the world. The Fixer and Other Stories is a new softcover that collects Sacco's landmark short stories on the Bosnian War that p ..."
But I Like It(1st Edition) by JoeSacco, The Miracle Workers Hardcover, 120 Pages, Published 2006 by Fantagraphics Books Bargain Price ISBN-13: 978-1-56097-729-2, ISBN: 1-56097-729-9
"It's Safe Area Gorazde meets This is...Spinal Tap as cartoon journalist Joe Sacco takes on Rock 'n' Roll.The Gaza strip? No problem! Deepest Serbia? A cakewalk. Those were easy. But now the time has come to follow award-winning cartoon journalist Joe Sacco on one of the most dangerous beats (and we mean "beats" literally) of all... namely the world of rock 'n' roll.The centerpiece of the book is "In the Company of Long Hair," the early ..."
The Fixer(1st Edition) A Story from Sarajevo by JoeSacco Hardcover, 140 Pages, Published 2003 by Drawn And Quarterly ISBN-13: 978-1-896597-60-7, ISBN: 1-896597-60-2
"Forget CNN, forget Fox, forget the BBC. If you want the real news, tune in to Joe Sacco. With his earlier graphic novels Palestine and Safe Area Gorazde Sacco practically invented a new field: comic journalism. With The Fixer, he continues to chart new territory. The landscape may look the same--it's the Bosnian conflict documented in Safe Area Gorazde--but Sacco has shifted focus here, zooming in from the big picture of large-scale bat ..."
"“A marvelously informed, carefully crafted, far-ranging history of working people.”—Noam ChomskyAn updated edition of “an evergreen . . . comparable to Howard Zinn’s award–winning A People’s History of the United States” (Publishers Weekly) Hailed as a work of “impressive even-handedness and analytic acuity” (Publishers Weekly, starred review), From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend has set the standard for viewing American history ..."
"A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of a counterculture classic with a foreword by Chuck Palahniuk Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey s 1962 novel has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time. Now in a new deluxe edition with a foreword by Chuck Palahniuk and cover by Joe Sacco, here is the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants, especially the tyrannical Big Nurse Ratched and Randle Pat ..."
Journalism(1st Edition) by JoeSacco Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2012 by Metropolitan Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-9486-2, ISBN: 0-8050-9486-5
"A first for the world's greatest cartoon reporter, a collection of journalism, including articles on the American military in Iraq that have never been published in the United States Over the past decade, Joe Sacco, "our moral draughtsman" (Christopher Hitchens), has increasingly turned to short-form comics journalism to report from the sidelines of wars around the world. Collected here for the first time, Sacco's darkly funny, revealin ..."
"Camden, New Jersey, with a population of 70,390, is per capita the poorest city in the nation. It is also the most dangerous. The city's real unemployment hard to estimate, since many residents have been severed from the formal economy for generations is probably 30 to 40 percent. The median household income is $24,600. There is a 70 percent high school dropout rate, with only 13 percent of students managing to pass the state's prof ..."
"An engrossing history of American labor for a new generation. Priscilla Murolo and A. B. Chitty have created an engrossing, comprehensive history of labor in the United States, capturing the full sweep of working people's struggles, from indentured servants in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake to high-tech workers in contemporary Silicon Valley. Written with great narrative force, From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend surveys the ..."
Paying the Land by JoeSacco Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2020 by Metropolitan Books ISBN-13: 978-1-62779-903-4, ISBN: 1-62779-903-6
"From the “heir to R. Crumb and Art Spiegelman” (Economist), a masterful work of comics journalism about indigenous North America, resource extraction, and our debt to the natural worldThe Dene have lived in the vast Mackenzie River Valley since time immemorial, by their account. To the Dene, the land owns them, not the other way around, and it is central to their livelihood and very way of being. But the subarctic Canadian Northwest Ter ..."