Footnotes in Gaza Hardcover – 3 December 2009

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.

A must read

I had read Joe Sacco's Palestine prior to this and loved it............Graphic novel as a medium of Journalism, this is great............Footnotes in Gaza is no different.....Great book depicting the author's experience in the Gaza strip and the condition of people there

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Graphic journalism at it's best. Joe Sacco's masterpiece after Palestine. Words are not enough to express my delight for this artwork.

I do not have stomach for violence and yet this book while graphically depicting the systematic atrocities pushed me to turn the pages as the author and illustrator never left the goal of telling real stories of real people. Facts that were distorted, covered, dismissed in the manner that suited those who write history...

Joe Sacco may well be one of the greatest graphic novelists of all time. There is nothing I can fault in any of his books that I've read (and I'm now making my way through more). Highly recommend these books for anyone with the heart of an activist.

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.

This is a big book. A hugely important book. If you're at all interested in the the British occupation, manipulation of the middle East, their continuing support of the Israeli occupation, and the ensuing execrable injustices being perpetrated to this day in Gaza, please read this book. It deserves to be read. It's time to act on these atrocities. And it's certainly time to end the Israeli subjugation of the Palestinian people. Thank you once again, Joe Sacco.

When I first saw the book, I was surprised I hadn't realized it was a "comic book." Don't be fooled, it is some serious research and journalism. I am working on a PhD thesis on Israeli retaliatory policies, and this book will be an invaluable contribution to the views of "the other side." A must-read for anyone looking to understand the conflict better. Amazing.

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.