![]() “I personally think that photographs and film can be very effective, but sometimes they can show brutality so starkly that I feel a revulsion. It’s a disarming way to depict a violent atmosphere. ![]() The journalist and comics artist has delivered a career’s worth of first-hand reportage from some of the world’s most hostile areas through his painstakingly researched comic books, portraying life in a war-zone with a beguiling humour that only half obscures the precarious reality of conflict. ![]() ![]() It’s certainly not of a comic book filled with meticulously rendered explosions and heartbreakingly candid interviews – but that’s how war appears in the hands of Joe Sacco. Say the words “war journalism” and the first image that comes to mind is of a grizzly, brow-beaten correspondent clutching a microphone in a bullet-ridden, 30-second slot on the evening news. ![]()
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