The Comics of Joe Sacco: Journalism in a Visual World

by Daniel Worden (Editor)

Overview

The first book-length study of the acclaimed artist who brought journalistic reportage to comics

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781496802217
Publisher:	University Press of Mississippi
Publication date:	07/29/2015
Series:	Critical Approaches to Comics Artists Series
Pages:	298
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.10(h) x 3.20(d)

About the Author

Daniel Worden is associate professor of art at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He is author of Neoliberal Nonfictions: The Documentary Aesthetic from Joan Didion to Jay-Z and Masculine Style: The American West and Literary Modernism and editor of The Comics of R. Crumb: Underground in the Art Museum, published by University Press of Mississippi. His work on comics, literature, and other media has appeared in American Literature, Los Angeles Review of Books, and many other publications

Editorial Reviews

Daniel Worden's edited collection of graphic journalist Joe Sacco's critically acclaimed work makes a valuable contribution to several intersecting fields: comics studies, memory and trauma studies, and journalism, as well as visual and popular culture. This is a welcome first full-length collection of essays on Sacco's graphic reportage. . . . The Comics of Joe Sacco is an important editorial venture that can serve both as an introduction and an in-depth study of Sacco's work, and also as an important platform for some of the most heated current conversations on contemporary journalism and the medium of comics. Daniel Worden's editing has produced a well-structured series of in-depth close readings of Sacco's comics, with clearly articulated theses, expert and sometimes fresh critical approaches, as well as a coherent conversation among contributors.--Mihaela Precup "Biography, Volume 40, No. 2, Spring 2017"

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