Joe Sacco's comic books
Wednesday, 23 November 2011 16:47
The Amercian-Maltese journalist Joe Sacco choosed to tell the stories of what he witnesses during his journeys to draw it instead of simply writing it down. He was on the field during the major conflicts of 20th century: the Vietnam war, the ex-Yougoslavia conflicts, more recently the Irak war et he shared the everyday life of the Indians living in the deepest poverty or the Chechen wives.
All his comic books are stories of History, stories of humanity, of inhumnity. Sacco gives the occasion to the forgotten to be heard and offers a different look on the news.
Through comics, the caracteristic objectivity of the classical journalism disappears, giving birth to a personal look thanks to which the author offers his direct impressions and his visions of the charachters he met during his travels. He gives us a look on the conflicts from the inside, portays real characters thus helping to understand the deepness of mankind and how the absurdities and atrocities he witnessed affect humans and their souls.
Joe Sacco's bibliography on Amazon
