Northwest Cartoon Cookery

A one-shot from Starhead Comix, Northwest Cartoon Cookery (1995) is a singular, characteristically obsessive project from journalist-cartoonist Joe Sacco. Rather than conflict zones, Sacco turns his meticulous pen to the kitchens and cookbooks of the Pacific Northwest, offering a deadpan, documentary-style examination of regional food culture. It stands as an odd, fascinating outlier in his career—a low-stakes culinary travelogue from a creator renowned for his war reportage.