Palestine

Before the Safe Zone Joe Sacco's visual journalism debut, Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992–1995. The celebrated writer was most renowned for Palestine, a two-volume graphic novel that took home the 1996 American Book Award.

With great pleasure, Fantagraphics Books presents the first single-volume compilation of this seminal work of journalism and comics art.

Sacco's first major work of political and historical nonfiction in comic book form was Palestine, based on an extended visit to the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the early 1990s, during which he conducted over 100 interviews with Palestinians and Jews. Sacco's name has since become synonymous with this graphic form of New Journalism. Palestine, like Safe Area Gorazde, has drawn comparisons to Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus because of its masterful handling of such politically and socially delicate material within the comic book format.

Sacco is without a doubt the greatest comic book journalist and is often referred to as the pioneer. One of the world's most reputable experts on the Middle East issue, Edward Said, is an author, critic, and historian who has written two books on the subject: The Question of Palestine and Peace and Its Discontents. He also provides an introduction to this version of Palestine.