Frases de Joe Sacco

Joe Sacco nasceu em Malta em 1960, atualmente reside em Seattle e é reconhecido mundialmente pela combinação de suas duas profissões: artista de quadrinhos e jornalista. Sua obra mais conhecida é Palestine, lançada originalmente na forma de gibis pela editora norte-americana Fantagraphics entre 1993 e 1995. No Brasil, a obra teve diversas edições no formato livro. A mais recente delas publicada em 2021 pela editora Veneta, com o nome Palestina.Pelo seu característico estilo entre histórias em quadrinhos e jornalismo, Sacco recebeu importantes prémios nas duas áreas em que atua e foi comparado a Art Spiegelman, autor de Maus: relato de um sobrevivente que retrata a história de como seus pais sobreviveram ao Holocausto. Wikipedia  

✵ 3. Outubro 1960
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Joe Sacco: Frases em inglês

“History is a combination of a lot of things. You can’t isolate events today and say, “Oh, well, this happened—those awful people.””

The acts might be brutal, but there must be a context to it. I certainly didn’t want to drop the reader into those incidents without telling the story of, well: Why are there refugees? Why were the Israelis and the Palestinians battling along the border? Who were the fedayeen? What was the Israeli response to that? But more than that, I think, for me, the book ends up being—this is going to sound strange—a dead end. Because I don’t know where to go from here, except to delve into human psychology. I think I understand how history works. I understand why one people are battling another people. I understand that they both want land. But ultimately there’s a level that I haven’t really got to yet…
On the multifaceted quality of history in “An Interview with Joe Sacco” https://believermag.com/an-interview-with-joe-sacco/ in Believer Magazine (2011 Jun 1)

“What I try to do with my images is just give the reader a real feel for a place…It's very visceral. You open the page, and you are right there in the moment.”

On what he aimed for with his book The Great War in “A Panorama Of Devastation: Drawing Of WWI Battle Spans 24 Feet” https://www.npr.org/2013/11/10/243068448/a-panorama-of-devastation-drawing-of-wwi-battle-spans-24-feet in NPR (2013 Nov 10)