I've been looking into good graphic novels... which means extended comic books... and found an author new to me, covering an old subject very well.
Joe Sacco is a journalist that spent a few months in Israel/Palestine to cover the life of the Palestinians during the first Intifada.
He is first and foremost a journalist, but his medium is comic art, and his style of narration is personal and self-effacing. While journalists have said plenty on the Palestinian situation, HIS way of telling it makes it very fresh and perhaps more accessible.
After all this is a very heady and dark subject, and without some humor, it becomes overwhelming, perhaps impossible to digest. Strict journalist methods may force one to turn away and give up.
Anyway, I highly recommend this book for everyone, especially those who have little understanding about the history/nature of the conflict... or who these Palestinians are and what might drive them to extreme measures.
FYI--- For those wondering, it is not a "Palestinians are sunshine" book. It is pretty much a warts and all depiction of both sides. Yes, the Israelis have a few more malignant growths to expose, but one tends to understand WHY as the events unfold.
Remember its an EASY READ people, its a comic book!
holmes
"...what a fool believes he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away.."(D. Bros)