Scott Thill interviews Joe Sacco, “a cartoonist who is more often recognized as a journalist” and whose American Book Award-winning collection, Palestine, is “now receiving the deluxe-reissue treatment from comics powerhouse Fantagraphics.”
“Merit? Palestine bleeds gravitas, even as it is populated by avatars leaning closer to caricature than photo-realism. And it's not a polemic, which is why it has stuck around so long and blown down so many doors. Sacco analyzes the Israelis and the Palestinians on equal time, giving their intractable, millennia-old tribal conflict the type of complexity you rarely experience elsewhere.” – from "Joe Sacco on Comics, the Arabs and the Jews,” by Scott Thill, LA Weekly