If you don’t know Joe Sacco’s work, you have missed some of the best and most politically engaged comix of the past twenty years. He started out as yet another autobiographer, a Crumb-lite, but then he got distracted by the first Gulf War. Since then he has pioneered his own brand of comics journalism, going to Palestine and Bosnia, talking to people, getting their stories on paper.
His latest piece, of which the above page is an extract, is available as a 3.3 Mb PDF file from The Guardian website. Sacco talked to two victims of US torture, when they came to the US recently to bring suit against Donald Rumsfeld for their torture. Sacco manages to capture their experiences in a way no photographs could ever do.
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