![]() ![]() In contrast, Delisle records Israel/Palestine from the perspective of a curious outsider and in his own tongue-in-cheek self-description, ‘a housewife’. ![]() The image below is taken from Sacco’s Footnotes in Gaza: His focus is typically on the details of day-to-day life – which mainly revolve around looking after his two young children – rather than on the in-depth explication of history, politics and nationalist violence that characterise Sacco’s texts. ![]() Journalist Joe Sacco’s acclaimed Palestine(2001) and Footnotes in Gaza(2009) provide touchstones to which all new graphic novels on Israel/Palestine are inevitably compared.ĭelisle has published travelogues on Burma, North Korea and China. Harvey Pekar and Boaz Yakin published two very different works in 2012 on their connections to the region, and Sarah Glidden documented her birthright tour in How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less (2010). Quebecois graphic novelist Guy Delisle’s Jerusalem: Chronicles From the Holy City (Jonathan Cape, 2012) is a collection of short comic strips which record Delisle’s year in East Jerusalem with his wife, a doctor for Medecins Sans Frontières.ĭelisle is one of a number of graphic novelists to have turned recently to the subjects of Jerusalem and Israel/Palestine. ![]()
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