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by Joe Sacco Before Joe Sacco crafted his two major works of 'cartoon journalism,' Palestine and Safe Area Gorazde, he created a number of shorter pieces, ranging from one-page gags to 30-page 'graphic novelettes.' This massive book finally collects the entirety of Sacco's earlier journalistic and autobiographical work, plus a sizable serving of his satirical strips, many of them never before collected in book form. The centerpieces in Notes from a Defeatist are a triptych of war stories: 'When Good Bombs Happen to Bad People,' a history of aerial bombing that specifically targets civilian populations; 'More Women, More Children, More Quickly,' in which Sacco relates his mother's harrowing experiences during World War II in Malta; and, most personally (and closest to Sacco's later work), 'How I Loved the War,' Sacco's impassioned but sardonic reflection on the Gulf war, the surrounding propaganda and media circus, and his own ambivalent feelings as both a spectator and commentator: The book derives its title from this sequence, which has acquired a painful new relevance in the past half-year. Notes from a Defeatist also includes a roadie's-eye view of an American punk band's eventful European tour, a reminiscence of an awful season spent in his native Malta, Sacco's hilarious recollections of his career as a librarian, a selection of satirical strips about slackers, artists, and American salarymen, and much more. MATURE READERS SC, 216pg, b&w |
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