Writers and Readers Week: Joe SaccoAudio interview with Lyndon Hood
Joe Sacco is a cartoonist best known for his journalistic comics focusing on war zones. Palestine depicts stories and his experiences in Israel and the Palestinian territories - other works have focued on the Bosnian
War and he is currently working on a book about the Rafah refugee camp.
Sacco is in New Zealand for the NZ Post Writers and Readers week. He spoke to Scoop about how he came to comics
journalism, the effect that the visual medium had on documentary storytelling, the current Israel/Palestine situation
and what he intends to do next.
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