Palestine - Outside of a Dog

285 pages

English language

Published Oct. 4, 2007 by Fantagraphic Books.

ISBN:: 978-1-56097-432-1

Prior to Safe Area Gorazde: The War In Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995—Joe Sacco's breakthrough novel of graphic journalism—the acclaimed author was best known for Palestine, a two-volume graphic novel that won an American Book Award in 1996. Fantagraphics Books is pleased to present the first single-volume collection of this landmark of journalism and the art form of comics. 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 Palestinians and Jews), Palestine was the first major comics work of political and historical nonfiction by Sacco, whose name has since become synonymous with this graphic form of New Journalism. Like Safe Area Gorazde, Palestine has been favorably compared to Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus for its ability to brilliantly navigate such socially and politically sensitive subject matter within the confines of the comic book …

Prior to Safe Area Gorazde: The War In Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995—Joe Sacco's breakthrough novel of graphic journalism—the acclaimed author was best known for Palestine, a two-volume graphic novel that won an American Book Award in 1996. Fantagraphics Books is pleased to present the first single-volume collection of this landmark of journalism and the art form of comics. 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 Palestinians and Jews), Palestine was the first major comics work of political and historical nonfiction by Sacco, whose name has since become synonymous with this graphic form of New Journalism. Like Safe Area Gorazde, Palestine has been favorably compared to Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus for its ability to brilliantly navigate such socially and politically sensitive subject matter within the confines of the comic book medium. Sacco has often been called the first comic book journalist, and he is certainly the best. This edition of Palestine also features an introduction from renowned author, critic, and historian Edward Said (Peace and Its Discontents and The Question of Palestine), one of the world's most respected authorities on the Middle Eastern conflict.

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I'm not sure there's anything I could say that hasn't already been said. Two things struck me: 1) the style is striking, especially the way he draws children - they have adult faces, and that is obviously a very intentional choice; 2) Writing in the 90s, he expresses skepticism about a two-state solution and suggests a single state is a better path, but that it would require an entirely different set of dynamics. Given how much the two-state discussion dominated things at this time, this seems prescient (especially given that a two-state solution is now dead).

Reading a book about Palestine that is 30+ years old that could have been written yesterday is...

I'm not sure there's anything I could say that hasn't already been said. Two things struck me: 1) the style is striking, especially the way he draws children - they have adult faces, and that is obviously a very intentional choice; 2) Writing in the 90s, he expresses skepticism about a two-state solution and suggests a single state is a better path, but that it would require an entirely different set of dynamics. Given how much the two-state discussion dominated things at this time, this seems prescient (especially given that a two-state solution is now dead).

Reading a book about Palestine that is 30+ years old that could have been written yesterday is...

Subjects

Jewish-Arab relations -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Arab-Israeli conflict -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Palestinian Arabs -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Gaza Strip -- Politics and government -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Middle East -- Politics and government -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Israel -- Politics and government -- Comic books, strips, etc.