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.””

Joe Sacco

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… <br class="br">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.”

Joe Sacco

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)