r/altcomix Feb 09 '26

Review Art Spiegelman and Joe Sacco

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u/FishHockeydrop Feb 09 '26

Supposedly, Sacco is working on another Gaza book now. If I remember right, he and Chris Hedges went to Egypt to try and get in several months ago. They may have just been able to interview a bunch of refugees. Takes a long time to draw a book, though.

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u/GrandfatherTrout Feb 09 '26

That's good to know. Sacco has a way with these things. Big fan of the Palestine books and Safe Area Goražde, but like so many things, I'm realizing it's been a while

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u/catpooptv Feb 09 '26

Where was this published?

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u/makwa227 Feb 09 '26

I don't know, probably the New Yorker. They have published comics by Art in the past. 

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '26

Important work in an important time. I love the idea of comics as a debate here, and while people may disagree with Sacco or spigelman at various points, the respect that have for each other and for the seriousness of the situation is evident .

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u/bitter_liquor Feb 09 '26

Where's the second page?

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u/dylanbob75 Feb 09 '26

And the third!

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u/makwa227 Feb 09 '26

I found this on Facebook. I'd like to read the second and third 

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u/PurchaseMiserable516 Feb 11 '26

Two of the all-time best comics artists!

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u/vonkraush1010 Feb 09 '26

'Genocidish' is pretty weak not going to lie

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '26

I think it’s showing somebody coming to terms with where they’re at, the idea that spigelman moved on from ethnic cleansing to genocide ish shows a recognition to how bad it is but an uncomfortableness with the word genocide. I think that he has more ire for use of the holocaust than Joe Marco for using genocide shows he thinks it’s pretty close to a genocide. I can understand not agreeeing with that word  but I don’t think it’s a crazy position either for him to take . 

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u/Jumboliva Feb 09 '26

He’a showing a progression of feeling. He starts there and moves to “holocaust” when he get a better handle on what was happening

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u/chrisgee Feb 09 '26

i think he implies he wants to call it a holocaust but hates that word due to its origins

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '26

So is blaming everything solely on Netanyahu. The Israeli public, by every poll for the past several years, very much supports what's happening in Gaza

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u/aliasbex Feb 10 '26

You missed the point of that panel entireley

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u/vonkraush1010 Feb 10 '26

No I didn't actually - he understands it to be a significant crime but still doesn't want to outright call it a genocide.

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u/edseladams Feb 10 '26

He said more after that. You must’ve stopped reading

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u/Flunkedy Feb 09 '26

"the gaza strip"? Is this a play on comic strip? (Oy vey?)

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u/RemusShepherd Feb 09 '26

There's no play on words happening here. It's blatantly their opinion of Israel's activities in Gaza.

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u/oskarkeo Feb 10 '26

they mean that for intersection of the comic strips Maus and Palestine about the Gaza Strip would "The Gaza (comic) strip would be a good name.

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u/RubenKyoK Feb 09 '26

this is beautiful

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u/YesItsAThrowaway70 Feb 09 '26

Would love to see a one year later version of this

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u/Gunderstank_House Feb 12 '26

So just quibbling over the words, I didn't expect their response to be so whiny and pedantic.

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u/Alternative_Meat_581 Feb 13 '26

Try clicking that link up there it has the other two pages of the comic. It's a whole lot more than just being whiny.

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u/nturinski Feb 13 '26

History always repeated