Palestine (comic)

Palestine is a collection of comic book reports by the American Joe Sacco . The book is considered to be the first work of comic journalism .

In the winter of 1991/1992 Sacco traveled to the territories occupied by Israel for two months and created nine chapters on almost 300 pages by 1995, for which he was awarded the American Book Award in 1996. From Cairo he visited cities such as Tel Aviv , Jerusalem , Nablus , Hebron , Jenin , Ramallah , a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, and met Palestinians there who told him about their arrests, torture, wounds or those of friends or relatives. In his comic, Sacco described life in the refugee camps and prisons and sketched a picture of the social, economic and political oppression by the Israelis, who with this policy brought enormous popularity to the PLO organizations.

expenditure

• In the USA the work was originally published as a series by Fantagraphics (1993–1995) and was reissued in book form in 2001 and 2007.

• The book was published in German by the Zweausendeins- Verlag (2004), the Edition Moderne (2009) and the Süddeutsche Zeitung Bibliothek - Graphic Novels (2011).
• In the UK the book was published by Jonathan Cape (2003).
• In France, editions were published by Vertige Graphic (1996) and Rackham (2010 and 2015) and were awarded the Prix ​​Tournesol at the Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d'Angoulême in 1999.
• The book was published in Norway in 2006 by Gyldendal Norsk Forlag .
• In Spain the book was published in 2013 by Rinoceronte Editora and in 2016 by Planeta DeAgostini .
• In Italy, the book was published by Edizioni RCS Libri in 2013 and by Mondadori in 2019 .
• The book was published in Japan in 2007.
• The book was published in 2007 by Rende in Serbia .
• The book was published in Turkey by İthaki Yayınları in 2009 .

literature

• Sarah Henstra : Comics (as) Journalism: Teaching Joe Sacco's Palestine to Media Students , in: Lan Dong (Ed.): Teaching Comics and Graphic Narratives. Essays on theory, strategy and practice . Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2012, ISBN 978-0-7864-6146-2 pp. 243-259

Web links

• Review of the new edition on the ComicRadioShow