Trade paperback. Cartoonist and reporter Joe Sacco approaches the subject of the massacre of Palestinian refugees in Rafah - the southernmost tip of the Gaza Strip - in 1956, getting a sense of the town's connected past and present Joe Sacco, one of the world's greatest cartoonists, is widely hailed as the creator of war reportage comics. He is the author of, among other books, Palestine, which received the American Book Award, and Safe Area: Gora¿de, which won the Eisner Award and was named a New York Times notable book and Time magazine's best comic book of 2000. Hisbooks have been translated into fourteen languages and his comics reporting has appeared in Details, The New York Times Magazine, Time, Harper's and the Guardian. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
