Comments on: Sacco’s investigative-reporting war comic book http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2010/02/05/saccos-investigative-reporting-war-comic-book/ The source for industry news for the professional cartoonist Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:54:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Mike Peterson http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2010/02/05/saccos-investigative-reporting-war-comic-book/#comment-90357 Mike Peterson Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:54:29 +0000 http://dailycartoonist.com/?p=6371#comment-90357 There was also an interview with him at Al-Jazeera by a young Palestinian journalist that goes into more depth on the choices he made as an artist and his overall approach to journalism. It's quite a good piece http://tinyurl.com/y96w8sq As for Mauldin, though he is at the top of my list of favorites, I don't think the connection with this type of journalism is there. Mauldin didn't investigate anything -- he simply drew the experience which, at least at the beginning, was his own. What made it different was the lack of Official Filter -- he depicted the life of the common soldier as it was, not through the eyes of the officers, which is the POV for nearly all war fiction and non-fiction. Brilliant stuff, but he didn't have to investigate -- he was already in the middle of it all. What Sacco does is quite different on a number of levels. I like'em both. There was also an interview with him at Al-Jazeera by a young Palestinian journalist that goes into more depth on the choices he made as an artist and his overall approach to journalism. It’s quite a good piece
http://tinyurl.com/y96w8sq

As for Mauldin, though he is at the top of my list of favorites, I don’t think the connection with this type of journalism is there. Mauldin didn’t investigate anything — he simply drew the experience which, at least at the beginning, was his own. What made it different was the lack of Official Filter — he depicted the life of the common soldier as it was, not through the eyes of the officers, which is the POV for nearly all war fiction and non-fiction. Brilliant stuff, but he didn’t have to investigate — he was already in the middle of it all.

What Sacco does is quite different on a number of levels. I like’em both.

]]> By: Ted Rall http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2010/02/05/saccos-investigative-reporting-war-comic-book/#comment-90352 Ted Rall Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:52:21 +0000 http://dailycartoonist.com/?p=6371#comment-90352 Certainly, in the modern era, I give Joe Sacco full credit for inventing the war correspondent-cartoonist genre--or sub-genre, since most cartoonists are smart enough not to venture to war zones. I couldn't have done my Afghan or Central Asia books if he hadn't made it possible. The same is true for David Axe/Matt Bors, as well as the travelogue genre embodied by Guy Delisle. To be finicky, however, surely there's a hat tip owed to Bill Mauldin. Certainly, in the modern era, I give Joe Sacco full credit for inventing the war correspondent-cartoonist genre–or sub-genre, since most cartoonists are smart enough not to venture to war zones. I couldn’t have done my Afghan or Central Asia books if he hadn’t made it possible. The same is true for David Axe/Matt Bors, as well as the travelogue genre embodied by Guy Delisle.

To be finicky, however, surely there’s a hat tip owed to Bill Mauldin.

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