Palestine

Joe Sacco's Palestine is a groundbreaking work of comics journalism, originally published in two issues by Vertige Graphic between 1996 and 1998. Through meticulous, black-and-white illustration and firsthand reportage, Sacco documents the everyday realities of life under occupation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, offering an unflinching, human-scale account of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The series is widely considered a landmark in the medium, demonstrating comics' power to tackle complex political and humanitarian subjects with empathy and depth.