The comics of Joe Sacco: journalism in a visual world

Introduction: drawing conflicts / Daniel Worden

Section I. The form of comics journalism

Time under siege / Jaren Gardner

Inside and outside the frame: Joe Sacco's Safe Area Goražde / Lan Dong

Drawing on the facts: comics journalism and the critique of objectivity / Isabel Macdonald

Views from nowhere: journalistic detachment in Palestine / Marc Singer

Section II. Space and maps

Mapping Bosnia: cartographic representation in Joe Sacco's graphic narratives / Edward C. Holland

A thousand plateaus: mining entropy in Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt / Georgiana Banita

The politics of space in Joe Sacco's representations of the Appalachian coalfields / Richard Todd Stafford

Section III. The politics and aesthetics of Joe Sacco's comics

Little things mean a lot: the everyday material of Palestine / Ann D'Orazio

John's story: Joe Sacco's depiction of "Bare Life" / Øyvind Vågnes

Sacco with Badiou: on the political ontology of comics / Alexander Dunst

Joe Sacco's comics of performance / Rebecca Scherr

Section IV. Drawing history, visualizing world politics

Overtaken by further developments: the form of history in Footnotes in Gaza / Ben Owen

Graphic representations of language, translation, and culture in Joe Sacco's comics journalism / Brigid Maher

What washes up onto the shore: contamination and containment in "The Unwanted" / Maureen Shay

Teaching world politics with Joe Sacco: Safe Area Goražde in the classroom / Kevin C. Dunn

Appendix: Joe Sacco's primary works.