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Joe Sacco — the celebrated author of Footnotes in Gaza — collects his on-the-ground comics reportage in this substantial 2012 volume, Journalism. The cover itself is a striking collage of panels rendered in Sacco's meticulous ink-wash style, depicting distressed figures, crowded scenes, and a man gesturing with a rod, all arranged in a mosaic that reflects the breadth and human weight of the stories within. With writing, art, inking, and lettering all by Sacco himself — and colors by Rhea Patton — this is comics journalism at its most personal and committed.