http://www.metafilter.com/tags/JoeSacco Posts tagged with 'JoeSacco' at MetaFilter. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:36:17 -0800 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:36:17 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/86920/Draw%2Dit%2Das%2Dyou%2Dsee%2Dit <a href="http://www.readyourselfraw.com/profiles/sacco/profile_sacco.htm">Joe Sacco</a> is a political journalist. His medium is the comic.<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4fug0PjBsI"> He gave a talk</a> last march at the Walker Art Centre where he also answers questions. <small> Talk starts 07.50 after introductions.</small> (<small><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Sacco">wiki</a> previous <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/40055/Joe-Saccos-Latest-Report-From-The-Frontline">1</a>, <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/27251/David-Hadju-discusses-Joe-Saccos-and-Palestine-and-Safe-Area-Gorzade-and-Daniel-Clowes-Ghost-World">II </a> </small> ) For those like myself who until recently were not aware of Joe Sacco; <a href="http://januarymagazine.com/profiles/jsacco.html">Here</a> is an interview from a few years back and <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/nov/22/joe-sacco-interview-rachel-cooke">here</a> an interview published last weekend. tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.86920 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:36:17 -0800 Comics JoeSacco journalism adamvasco http://www.metafilter.com/65082/Four%2DColour%2DFunnies%2Din%2Dthe%2DOld%2DGrey%2DLady <a title="2000 Salon profile" href="http://archive.salon.com/people/bc/2000/12/05/clowes/index.html">Daniel</a> <a title="Wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Clowes">Clowes</a>, <a title="2006 PBS-POV Interview" href="http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2006/tintinandi/sfartists_clowes.html">creator</a> of the <a title="Excerpts" href="http://www.betaparticle.com/blog/template_permalink.asp?id=193">seminal</a> and <a title="OutrageFilter" href="http://www.nhregister.com/site/index.cfm?newsid=18835279&BRD=1281&PAG=461&dept_id=517515&rfi=8">contro</a><a title="OutrageFilter" href="">versial</a> comic series <em><a title="2005 Suicide Girls interview" href="http://suicidegirls.com/interviews/Daniel+Clowes/">Eightball</a></em>, is currently producing the serial <em>Mister Wonderful</em> for the <a title="'... in a 2006 poll conducted by Gawker.com asking, 'Do you now find — or have you ever found — The Funny Pages funny?', 92% of 1824 voters answered 'No.'" href="http://www.nytimes.com/ref/magazine/funnypages.html">New York Times Magazine's The Funny Pages</a>. The NYT also presents a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/khtml/2004/07/11/magazine/20040711_GRAPHICNOVELS_FEATURE.html">slideshow exploring the medium of <strike>graphic novels</strike>comics</a> featuring <a title="Wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Spiegelman">Art Spiegelman</a>, <a title="Wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Sacco">Joe Sacco</a>, <a title="Wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_Brown">Chester Brown</a>, and previous Funny Pages contributors <a title="Wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth_%28cartoonist%29">Seth</a> and <a title="Wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Ware">Chris Ware</a>. <u>Previous Contributors</u> <a title="Artist's Site" href="http://www.girlhero.com/">Megan</a> <a title="Wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megan_Kelso">Kelso's</a> <em><a title="'The story is about a housewife who becomes obsessed with watching the Watergate scandal unfold on TV in the early '70s. She has a 3-year-old daughter and some of the story is about what Watergate seems like to a little kid.' -2007 Seattle Times interview" href="http://www.nytimes.com/ref/magazine/funnypagesWatergate.html">Watergate Sue</a></em> <a title="2006 PBS-POV Interview" href="http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2006/tintinandi/sfartists_seth.html">Seth's</a> <em><a title="'Narratively it jumps around in time... George, of course, is an old man like almost all of my characters (for some inexplicable reason) and without giving away a single element of the story I will say that I have tried to retain some Canadian-ness to the setting and subject matter.' -2006 Sequential Interview" href="http://www.nytimes.com/ref/magazine/funnypagesSprott.html">George Sprott (1894-1975)</a></em> <a title="2003 Suicide Girls interview" href="http://suicidegirls.com/interviews/Jaime+Hernandez/">Jaime</a> <a title="Wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaime_Hernandez">Hernandez's</a> <em>La Maggie La Loca</em> [Direct links to PDFs] <a title="'... in which longtime leading lady Maggie visits her pro-wrestler/rebel-leader mentor Rena Tita&#0241;on on her remote island home for the first time in over a decade. The story makes the twin points of just how much and how little both Maggie and Jaime’s ‘Locas’ saga have grown and changed since their wild sci-fi roots.' -Wizard Magazine" href="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/magazine/20060423_FUNNY.pdf">01</a>-<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/magazine/20060430_FUNNY.pdf">02</a>-<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/magazine/20060507_FUNNY.pdf">03</a>-<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/magazine/20060514_FUNNY.pdf">04</a>-<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/magazine/20060521_FUNNY.pdf">05</a>-<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/magazine/20060528_FUNNY.pdf">06</a>-<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/magazine/20060604_FUNNY.pdf">07</a>-<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/magazine/20060611_FUNNY.pdf">08</a>-<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/magazine/20060618_FUNNY.pdf">09</a>-<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/magazine/20060625_FUNNY.pdf">10</a> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/magazine/20060702_FUNNY.pdf">11</a>-<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/magazine/20060709_FUNNY.pdf">12</a>-<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/magazine/20060716_FUNNY.pdf">13</a>-<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/magazine/20060723_FUNNY.pdf">14</a>-<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/magazine/20060730_FUNNY.pdf">15</a>-<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/magazine/20060806_FUNNY.pdf">16</a>-<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/magazine/20060813_FUNNY.pdf">17</a>-<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/magazine/20060820_FUNNY.pdf">18</a>-<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/magazine/20060827_FUNNY.pdf">19</a>-<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/magazine/20060903_FUNNY.pdf">20</a> <a title="2006 PBS-POV Interview" href="http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2006/tintinandi/sfartists_ware.html">Chris Ware's</a> <em>Building Stories</em> [Direct links to PDFs] <a title="'Fans of Ware's work will find the usual mix of innovative page designs with quiet, compelling moments filled with the familiar themes of sadness, longing and regret. The story focuses on the eclectic group of residents of a typical urban apartment building. The characters themselves are also vintage Ware - melancholy, lonely, helpless romantics.' -Comic Book Galaxy" href="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/magazine/20050918funny.pdf">01</a>-<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/magazine/20050925_funny.pdf">02</a>-<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/magazine/20051002_funny.pdf">03</a>-<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/magazine/20051009_funny.pdf">04</a>-<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/magazine/20051016_FUNNY.pdf">05</a>-<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/magazine/20051023_FUNNY.pdf">06</a>-<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/magazine/20051030_FUNNY.pdf">07</a>-<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/magazine/20051106_FUNNY.pdf">08</a>-<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/magazine/20051113_FUNNY.pdf">09</a>-<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/magazine/20051120_FUNNY.pdf">10</a> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/magazine/20051127_FUNNY.pdf">11</a>-<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/magazine/20051104_FUNNY.pdf">12</a>-<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/magazine/20051211_FUNNY.pdf">13</a>-<a title="Mistitled as #13" href="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/magazine/20051218_FUNNY.pdf">14</a>-<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/magazine/20060101_FUNNY.pdf">15</a>-<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/magazine/20060108_FUNNY.pdf">16</a>-<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/magazine/20060115_FUNNY.pdf">17</a>-<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/magazine/20060122_FUNNY.pdf">18</a>-<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/magazine/20060129_FUNNY.pdf">19</a>-<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/magazine/20060205_FUNNY.pdf">20</a> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/magazine/20060212_FUNNY.pdf">21</a>-<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/magazine/20060219_FUNNY.pdf">22</a>-<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/magazine/20060226_FUNNY.pdf">23</a>-<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/magazine/20060305_FUNNY.pdf">24</a>-<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/magazine/20060312_FUNNY.pdf">25</a>-<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/magazine/20060319_FUNNY.pdf">26</a>-<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/magazine/20060326_FUNNY.pdf">27</a>-<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/magazine/20060402_FUNNY.pdf">28</a>-<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/magazine/20060409_FUNNY.pdf">29</a>-<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/magazine/20060416_FUNNY.pdf">30</a> tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.65082 Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:08:42 -0800 ArtSpiegelman ChesterBrown ChrisWare Comics DanielClowes JaimeHernandez JoeSacco MeganKelso NewYorkTimes NYT Seth Alvy Ampersand http://www.metafilter.com/40359/The%2DCase%2Dfor%2DComics%2DJournalism <a href="http://www.cjr.org/issues/2005/2/ideas-essay-williams.asp?printerfriendly=yes">The Case for Comics Journalism</a> tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.40359 Fri, 11 Mar 2005 08:37:26 -0800 ArtSpiegelman Comics JoeSacco Journalism TedRall njm http://www.metafilter.com/27251/David%2DHadju%2Ddiscusses%2DJoe%2DSaccos%2Dand%2DPalestine%2Dand%2DSafe%2DArea%2DGorzade%2Dand%2DDaniel%2DClowes%2DGhost%2DWorld <a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/16515" title="In comics, a group of artist-writers... has been poking around the same territory, making prosaic autobiographical books about hanging out with friends, developing crushes (generally unrequited), doing temp jobs, or ''whatever.'' The Internet has displayed a related phenomenon, the open diaries called ''blogs'' (from ''web logs''), which put their writers' daily lives up for public display in numbing detail. - Sorry, I just couldn't resist: 'numbing detail' *snort*">Comics for Grown-Ups</a><br>David Hadju discusses <a href="http://www.fantagraphics.com/artist/sacco/sacco_bio.html" title="Joe Sacco is a Maltese citizen currently residing in Queens, NY where he makes his living as a cartoonist and journalist.">Joe Sacco's</a> <em><a href="http://www.fantagraphics.com/artist/sacco/more_pal_gal/p1.html">Palestine</a></em> and <em><a href="http://www.fantagraphics.com/artist/sacco/gorazde_gal/gor1.html">Safe Area Gorazde</a></em> and <a href="http://www.fantagraphics.com/artist/clowes/clowes.html" title="Other favorites include ''Art School Confidential,'' one of Clowes' most popular strips of all-time: it was recently optioned as a major motion picture by Drew Barrymore, with a screenplay by Ghost World's Clowes and Terry Zwigoff. ">Daniel Clowes'</a> <em><a href="http://www.fantagraphics.com/artist/clowes/ghostgal/ghost1.html" title="Enid loves a TV comedian who has adopted a forced ''weirdo'' persona because she considers him authentically phony. Her favorite restaurant is one of a chain of paltry recreations of 1950s joints, which she calls ''the Mona Lisa of the bad fake diners'' because it is so pitifully unconvincing.">Ghost World</a></em>. I wanted to link the Ghost World movie site but it's currently down. Whether this is permanently or not, I know not. I'll be sad if it's gone--it was so darn cool and so elegantly done. tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.27251 Sat, 26 Jul 2003 03:35:25 -0800 comics danielclowes davidclowes davidhadju ghostworld graphicnovels joesacco palestine safeareagorazde y2karl