Here are two images from his 2009 work “Footnotes in Gaza”: Since “Palestine,” Sacco has continued to win awards for his works about war zones and impoverished areas, from the Balkans to the slums of India to the Occupy Wall Street camps. Yet it was a rare and valuable perspective: Sacco’s research and reporting was meticulous to a fault, as honest and objective as he could make it.
The book raised important discussions about the impossibility of pure objectivity when it comes to journalism: by placing himself visually into the story, Sacco acknowledged that this story, politically charged by default, was interpreted and conveyed by one person with one perspective. The black and white drawings in “Palestine,” as in all of Sacco’s works, are beautiful, precise and wrenching all at once. Here’s what Sacco really looks like, next to his narrator. This is also the work that introduced most readers to his narrator self, a blank-eyed and somewhat bumbling figure whom readers could easily project themselves into as he attempted to navigate the complicated and competing histories of this war-torn area. His 1993 breakthrough work “Palestine” told the story of his visit to the West Bank and Gaza Strip to learn about that area’s conflict directly from its people. Joe Sacco is a pioneer-arguably the pioneer-of comics journalism.
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