{"product_id":"9781496814708-comics-of-joe-sacco","title":"The Comics of Joe Sacco: Journalism in a Visual World (Critical Approaches to Comics Artists Series","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJournalism in a Visual World\u003cbr\u003eAddresses the range of Joe Sacco’s award-winning work, from his early comics stories as well as his groundbreaking journalism. This edited volume explores Sacco's comics journalism, and features established and emerging scholars from comics studies, cultural studies, geography, literary studies, political science, and communication studies.\u003cbr\u003eContributions by Georgiana Banita, Lan Dong, Ann D’Orazio, Kevin C. Dunn, Alexander Dunst, Jared Gardner, Edward C. Holland, Isabel Macdonald, Brigid Maher, Ben Owen, Rebecca Scherr, Maureen Shay, Marc Singer, Richard Todd Stafford, and Øyvind Vågnes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Comics of Joe Sacco\u003c\/i\u003e addresses the range of his award-winning work, from his early comics stories as well as his groundbreaking journalism \u003ci\u003ePalestine\u003c\/i\u003e (1993) and \u003ci\u003eSafe Area to Goražde\u003c\/i\u003e (2000), to \u003ci\u003eFootnotes in Gaza\u003c\/i\u003e (2009) and his most recent book \u003ci\u003eThe Great War\u003c\/i\u003e (2013), a graphic history of World War I.\u003cp\u003eFirst in the series, Critical Approaches to Comics Artists, this edited volume explores Sacco’s comics journalism, and features established and emerging scholars from comics studies, cultural studies, geography, literary studies, political science, and communication studies. Sacco’s work has already found a place in some of the foundational scholarship in comics studies, and this book solidifies his role as one of the most important comics artists today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSections focus on how Sacco’s comics journalism critiques and employs the “standard of objectivity” in mainstream reporting, what aesthetic principles and approaches to lived experience can be found in his comics, how Sacco employs the space of the comics page to map history and war, and the ways that his comics function in the classroom and as human rights activism. \u003ci\u003eThe Comics of Joe Sacco\u003c\/i\u003e offers definitive, exciting approaches to some of the most important—and necessary—comics today, by one of the most acclaimed journalist-artists of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55262520607094,"sku":"9781496814708","price":27.04,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_38247595_90f9024d-90d5-4e34-b681-b005a51c1a29.jpg?v=1763862643","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781496814708-comics-of-joe-sacco","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}