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Footnotes in Gaza Paperback – October 12, 2010

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"Sacco brings the conflict down to the most human level, allowing us to imagine our way inside it, to make the desperation he discovers, in some small way, our own."―Los Angeles Times

Rafah, a town at the bottommost tip of the Gaza Strip, has long been a notorious flashpoint in the bitter Middle East conflict. Buried deep in the archives is one bloody incident, in 1956, that left 111 Palestinians shot dead by Israeli soldiers. Seemingly a footnote to a long history of killing, that day in Rafah―cold-blooded massacre or dreadful mistake―reveals the competing truths that have come to define an intractable war.

In a quest to get to the heart of what happened, Joe Sacco immerses himself in the daily life of Rafah and the neighboring town of Khan Younis, uncovering Gaza past and present. As in Palestine and Safe Area Goražde, his unique visual journalism renders a contested landscape in brilliant, meticulous detail. Spanning fifty years, moving fluidly between one war and the next, Footnotes in Gaza―Sacco's most ambitious work to date―transforms a critical conflict of our age into intimate and immediate experience.

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October 12, 2010
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"[A] gripping, important book...Sacco will find readers for Footnotes in Gaza far into the future because of the unique format and style of his comic-book narrative. He stands alone as a reporter-cartoonist because his ability to tell a story through his art is combined with investigative reporting of the highest quality." ―The New York Times Book Review

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Joe Sacco is the author of Footnotes in Gaza,for which he received an Eisner Award and the Ridenhour Book Prize, as well as Palestine, Journalism, Safe Area Goražde (also an Eisner winner), and other books. His works have been translated into fourteen languages and his comics reporting has appeared in Details, The New York Times Magazine, Time, and Harpers. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0805092773
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Metropolitan Books; Illustrated edition (October 12, 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 432 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780805092776
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0805092776
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.6 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.8 x 1.05 x 10.4 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #27,687 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #6 in Educational & Nonfiction Graphic Novels
- #21 in Biographies & History Graphic Novels
- #102 in Israel & Palestine History (Books)

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Joe Sacco, one of the world's greatest cartoonists, is widely hailed as the creator of war reportage comics. He is the author of, among other books, Palestine, which received the American Book Award, and Safe Area: Goraï¿½de, which won the Eisner Award and was named a New York Times notable book and Time magazine's best comic book of 2000. Hisbooks have been translated into fourteen languages and his comics reporting has appeared in Details, The New York Times Magazine, Time, Harper's and the Guardian. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

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Daniel Lobo

Masterful Work of Graphic Research and Narrative

Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2011

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Joe Sacco had already developed an important graphic work, well worth of its recognition, looking at personal research in conflict zones such as the former Yugoslavia or the Palestine revisited in these "Footnotes in Gaza". The frustration of an uneven and often untold conflict shines through the research of the events and killings of Khan Younins and Rafah well over fifty years ago with poignant relevance.

The graphic narrative driven out of his personal-research where he becomes another character, another agent in the conflict, is truly outstanding. Sacco offers an intriguingly open and critical account of his efforts and perceptions as he explores the events of the 1956 killing in Palestine, while he visits a region about to witness the US war against Iraq that would topple the regime of Hussein. In doing so, not only he reveals a poignant account about the difficulties and importance of recuperating memories, even the smaller ones, but leaves a trite and cogent account of the past and current circumstances faced by Palestine.

Exploring these footnotes in history, sure enough will unfold universal truths for those willing to pick them up, but more importantly sets a memorable and committed effort to develop a graphic journalism with a cause, explored with rigor, on the ground, and setting new narratives worth sharing with a passion.

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James E Best Jr

A path to owning American complicity in abuse of Palestinians.

Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2021

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A powerful work for it’s personal truth telling and gritty reality; no façade or pleasantries here. Digs under the skin and demands reading from the heart.
Hopefully to effect a softening and crumbling of American walls of complacency. Don’t walk here unless you are willing to confront your conscience.

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chanel

... read this yet in its entirety but it is pretty intense and so the graphic aspect of it makes ...

Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2014

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Havent read this yet in its entirety but it is pretty intense and so the graphic aspect of it makes the messages, story line, and facts more palpable and understandable. I would definitely reccomend this to anyone wanting to understand the issues with Palestine espeacially an adolescent.

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Wild Dove

Reading "Footnote" and Gaza visit essential for U.S. leaders

Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2015

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Every member of Congress should be required to read "Footnotes" and spend a week in Gaza before approving more military aid to Israel. And every presidential candidate, too.

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Paul Pinard

Israel is ethnic cleansing

Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2018

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Thank you to Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges for the recommendation!!!

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Rachel

Textbook for School

Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2013

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I bought this book for school and I received it in the condition it was promised. Overall, I'm happy with my purchase, just not so happy with the home work :)

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M. Cumber

footnotes in Gaza

Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2012

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Amazing what you don't learn in school or from national news. Very interesting. The art was amazing and the story line keeps you reading right up til the end.

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Elizabeth Burke

Arrived before expectations and in perfect condition

Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2012

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I just received this book today so I have not had the chance to experience it.
It's the first book of this kind that I ever purchased.

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Ragunathan P

Don't miss any of Joe Sacco's comics journalism

Reviewed in India on November 8, 2022

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This has more than 400 pages, yet I felt sad that the book ended. This book explores Palestine issue and especially what happened in 1956 in the gaza strip. Just like his other books (Palestine, Journalism, etc.), we continue to be shocked by inhumane nature of the powerful.

I wish more people do comics journalism. I consider it as more potent than written and TV journalism.

Bill Dean

Joe Sacco's Masterpiece

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 20, 2010

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Having read all of Joe Sacco's books, I can conclude - unequivocally - that `Footnotes in Gaza' is his best.

Centred around Sacco's quest to uncover the truth around Israel's massacre of 111 civilians in the town of Rafah in 1956 (a `footnote' in his early book, `Palestine'), Sacco expertly flits between his odyssey while detailing the current, miserable fate of those living in the Gaza Strip.

In a work that details horrific inhumanity, Sacco - conversely - brings great humanity to the vilified Gazans. The book is full of dark humour and personal insights, but nor is the author one to shirk from criticising Palestinians, for example when they glory in the deaths of American soldiers in Iraq.

The artwork is stunning in its detail. My favourite set-pieces are when Sacco zooms out of a scene, as if in a film, and reveals the full devastation of Gaza in minute detail.

Overall, as a reader, one is left bristling with anger at the injustices of Israel's horrific treatment of Palestinians, but Sacco retains an even tone throughout. Indeed the most obvious comparison one can draw with contemporary Gaza is that of the Warsaw Ghetto. Sacco stops short of making that comparison himself, but anyone studied in history will surely do so.

Recalling the Holocaust nevertheless reveals the one weakness in this work. Sacco is largely unsuccessful (although how far he tried, he never tells us) in getting the Israeli perspective on the massacre. What turned the victims of one historical injustice into the perpetrators of another in barely a decade? This is the most intriguing question of Israel's abuse of Palestinians, but one he never addresses.

This, nevertheless, is an important book and deserves its place among the literary canon on Palestine. It's cartoon-journalism may be mocked in some quarters, but that is nonsense and an injustice to a style that is as memorable as even the greatest writer could conjure.

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Frank

I've never read a history book which consists of cartoons

Reviewed in Canada on March 2, 2021

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This was different and not what I expected. A history book with cartoons. Amazing amount of work in the drawings. And an interesting history based on a few days of war between the good people of Gaza and the gun-crazy people on the other side of the fence.

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Luca L.

Recommend it

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 28, 2021

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First time I read a Joe Sacco's work and his style definitely caught me. Drawings are amazingly detailed and the story is smoothly and interestingly readable. Recommend it.

Jay

Absolute Must Read

Reviewed in Canada on June 7, 2021

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The world needs more investigative journalists like Joe Sacco.

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