Otts reviewed Palestine by Edward Said
Hard lessons
4 stars
Felt I needed to read this with everything going on. Also took a workshop on comic journalism, which apparently Sacco pioneered? One of the conventions of this genre is that the author inserts themself into both the narrative and the drawings—there’s no pretense of objectivity or an attempt at invisibility. I didn’t like Sacco’s unvarnished sexism and Western bias. But even 40 years from publication, this taught me a lot.
