Journalism

One of the best parts of this book is the preface, where Sacco reflects on the ethics of comics journalism.

Perfect!

Gripping and intelligent in each of the 'stories' covered here, I recommend this book! And it's moving and all still so relevant too, sadly!

Obra complementaria de Joe Sacco, el texto en original, en inglés. El periodismo de guerra visto desde los ojos del propio autor. Un imprescindible.

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Es un libro muy orginal para regalar a gente que le guste leer periodismo de otra manera. los dibujos son muy chulos

There is a good mix of stories. I would say fairly balanced for those who would accuse him of bias.

If you like Sacco's book this is a must. Good to understand who he works. After reading, 'Save area Gorazde' and Palestina this book clarify a lot of things to me.

"Somebody ordered it, somebody did it, and somebody tolerated it. And all are guilty.""Someone leans over and says, In America when someone dies, you cry. Here we have a party.""If you work for the Americans, the Mujahadeen will kill you; If you work for the Mujahadeen, the Americans will kill you; And if you stay home, you won't earn any money.""When African immigrants arrive here, they are welcomed by detention for up to a year and a half before being released to open centers, where they can come and go as they please.""When the day of reckoning comes, there will not be enough lampposts for the traitorous bastards.""Arsonists have targeted the homes or property of those considered sympathetic to the immigrants, including journalists, Jesuits, and a lawyer.""In 2002 Malta forcibly returned more than 220 Eritreans; they were immediately imprisoned on arrival. Many were tortured, and some died from their mistreatment.""When residents saw he way paying some of them to clean the facility, they intentionally threw garbage on the ground. The more cleaners were employed, the more it became dirty...""Big people. That's a euphemism for those who call the shots in the village, those who perhaps aren't so much worried that we'll glimpse the shameful poverty here as get an inkling into what a wonderful business it can be.""Suvanti says she works for 20. Does she know that the minimum wage is 100 rupees? What is the point knowing it? Men make 100 rupees, women make 20 rupees. How does it make a difference if I know?""The women (and children and even men) go to the fields where the rats are, and we collect the grains that they store in their holes, and we bring them here. We go there every day."

"Show me!" In this YouTube era of media, that's increasingly the demand from an information-hungry public. Newspapers and magazines surviving today seem to put more effort into photos and videos than they do into prose reporting. Clearly, pioneering comic book journalist Joe Sacco has lived long enough to smile at the twists of history that are heading in his direction. Images rule!What's more: Comics rule! Even the classics are coming back. Are you a fan of Walt Kelly's Pogo? The entire run is coming back as a multi-volume series. Amazon already is listing the September release of  Pogo: Bona Fide Balderdash (Vol. 2) (Walt Kelly's Pogo) . The 2012 Avengers movie from Walt Disney already is No. 3 on the Worldwide All-Time Box Office list compiled by the Internet Movie DataBase. The top 25 films on that list include movies featuring Spider-Man, Shrek, the Ice Age animals, Transformers, the Lion King, Harry Potter, Pirates of the Caribbean and the Lord of the Rings. The No. 1 and No. 2 movies on the list are Avatar and Titanic. Clearly, the list is dominated by fantasy, comic heroes and cartoons. A major section-front story in the New York Times just made this same point in July 2012.Major publishers are aware of this trend! And that brings us to Joe Sacco, who was formally trained in journalism at the University of Oregon -- but immediately began tearing up the journalism handbook to add new chapters about world news reporting. There's not a writer whose body of work is better described as "love him or hate him" in terms of public reception. To begin with, a lot of traditional journalists shook their heads when Sacco began tackling such hot-button stories as injustices in Palestine and the Bosnian War. Turning life-and-death journalism into comics!?! Then, even when readers began to give Sacco the benefit of the doubt in using comics to report the news, there were his stories themselves. Hand a copy of his epic work,  Palestine , to a room full of people who really care about Israel and Palestine -- and they soon will be ripping pages out of the book as they argue over its contents. That's despite the fact that it won the American Book Award in 1996.Just as Sacco produces non-traditional journalism, you are reading a non-traditional book review of his latest release, called simply: Journalism. At long last, just as Pogo is coming out in lavish hardback editions, Sacco's shorter works of comic journalism over the years have been collected into a single hardback volume. Sacco has written a fresh Preface to this volume and it includes a fascinating, transparent description of Sacco's standards for comic journalism. He's clear in arguing that this is a serious-minded, legitimate approach to reporting the news. Yes, he admits, the comic medium adds the bias of the individual artist's drawing style to the factual reporting -- but then, so does video editing in the slick new online video reports we are seeing from newspapers these days.If you haven't been following the explosion of comics as a new international language -- from domination of the movie industry to the widespread revivals of classic comics -- then check out Joe Sacco to see the potency of this movement. Sacco proves this isn't merely nostalgia. This is a new non-fiction medium emerging on a global scale. Yes, you may want to collect the Pogo reprints. I'm a big fan of Pogo myself. Yes, you may enjoy the mega-success of the Avengers and other comic super heroes.But don't miss Sacco's work, because he is poking a sharply pointed pen into the red-hot nexus of global news media -- and he is suggesting that the future may belong to budding Woodwards and Bernsteins who can literally set the scene for readers ... by drawing it. For now, order a copy of Journalism. And, sure, pick up a copy of Pogo while you're at it. Pogo: Bona Fide Balderdash (Vol. 2) (Walt Kelly's Pogo)Palestine

I was introduced to Joe Sacco in a college literature class, and was fortunate enough to meet him in person after we had read the book. I cannot recommend his work highly enough. His art style is vivid and immersive, and more than anything Sacco's talent is to evoke immense sympathy and curiosity from his readers. It's easy to feel like one is standing just a few feet out of the frame, often bearing silent witness to an anthropogenic horror. From Bosnia to Malta to Iraq, from war crimes to refugees to combat, there's so many stories and perspectives.Sacco is an international treasure, and journalism is lucky to have him.

Harvey Pekar taught me that comic books can be great literature. Joe Sacco taught me that a cartoonist with insight and passion can be one of the most important journalists of our time. Start anywhere in Sacco's canon and you will be drawn to read everything he has produced.Journalism is a stunning education about human suffering in parts of the world we know little about and even those places we thought we understood well. Do yourself a favor and become a devotee of Sacco's work. And help spread the word about the stories he brings to life...the stories most journalists are unable or unwilling to report.

As a book, this is not quite as good as Sacco's "Safe Area Gorazde", where he spends a whole book getting to know the people of Gorazde, making their stories all the more riveting. There are a few stories in "Journalism" that come close to that, but others feel more like a comics version of a remote report on the nightly news. Interesting, informative, but not quite as hard-hitting.I strongly advise against buying the Kindle edition of this. The interface was very clumsy and frustrating to the point where it kept breaking my concentration on what I was reading. Whoever formatted this needs to learn from the way Comixology does digital comics -- which is not perfect, but far better than the job done on this.

The first section slaps the reader hard...mutilation, genocide, war atrocities.... Sacco delivers a pictorial perspective of recent wars through the graphic pictorial reporting for which he has become known. Highly recommended, but not for the young, nor for the weak of stomach.

Print still remains small when viewed on 12 inch Tablet, otherwise I like all of Joe Sacco's work. I like his style of reporting and, is sometimes very humorous. In my opinion he is very insightful as an observer.