Palestine
#[2] - In the Gaza Strip
(January 1996)
Fantagraphics,
1994 Series
- Price
- 16.95 USD; 23.95 CAD
- Pages
- 152
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Fantagraphics Books Inc.
- Brand
-
Fantagraphics Books [serif, double border]
- ISBN
-
1-56097-300-5; 978-1-56097-300-3
- Barcode
- 9781560973003 51695
- Editing
- Kim Thompson
Issue Notes
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
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Palestine: In the Gaza Strip
credits, title page / 3 pages
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Title page; Title and publisher page; Indicia, publishing and reprint credits
Refugeeland
Palestine / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- biography; drama
- Characters
- Joe Sacco; Teacher; Deaf Kid
- Synopsis
- Sacco tours a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip and sees some shocking poverty.
- Reprints
-
from Palestine (Fantagraphics, 1993 series) #6 (April 1994)
-
- Keywords
- autobiography
Indexer Notes
Dated December 1993
Rooms
Palestine / comic story / 9 pages
- Genre
- biography; drama
- Characters
- Joe Sacco; Larry; Masud; Ibrahim; Ammar
- Synopsis
- In Gaza's Nuseirat Camp, Sacco visits a roofless house and talks to several people.
- Reprints
- from Palestine (Fantagraphics, 1993 series) #6 (April 1994)
-
- Keywords
- autobiography
Indexer Notes
Dated December 1993- January 1994
Law
Palestine / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- biography; drama
- Characters
- Ammar; Joe Sacco; Larry; Lawyer
- Synopsis
- Sacco talks to an Islamic lawyer who is defending an honor killing. One man sitting nearby asks Sacco several tough questions, including what good will his writings about Palestine do.
- Reprints
- from Palestine (Fantagraphics, 1993 series) #6 (April 1994)
-
- Keywords
- autobiography
Indexer Notes
Dated January-March 1994
Black Coffee
Palestine / comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- biography; drama
- Characters
- Ammar; Larry; Joe Sacco; Ammar's Uncle
- Synopsis
- Sacco talks to Ammar's uncle, who was a Palestinian refugee from 1948.
- Reprints
- from Palestine (Fantagraphics, 1993 series) #6 (April 1994)
-
- Keywords
- autobiography
Indexer Notes
Dated February 1994
Sons of the Curfew
Palestine / comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- biography; drama
- Characters
- Ibrahim; Ammar; Joe Sacco
- Synopsis
- Ibrahim talks about his son and is offended by the illustration of a Palestinian in Sacco's guide book.
- Reprints
- from Palestine (Fantagraphics, 1993 series) #6 (April 1994)
-
- Keywords
- autobiography
Indexer Notes
Dated February 1994
Tomatoes
Palestine / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- biography; drama
- Characters
- Ibrahim; Masud; Ammar; Joe Sacco; The Cousin
- Synopsis
- Sacco visits a desk factory and meets with some tomato farmers.
- Reprints
- from Palestine (Fantagraphics, 1993 series) #6 (April 1994)
-
- Keywords
- autobiography
Indexer Notes
Dated March 1994
One Shekel to Gaza Town
Palestine / comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- biography; drama
- Characters
- Joe Sacco; Ammar
- Synopsis
- Sacco, who is leaving the camp, gets his taxi fare paid by Ammar.
- Reprints
- from Palestine (Fantagraphics, 1993 series) #6 (April 1994)
-
- Keywords
- autobiography
Indexer Notes
Dated March 1994
Edward Said
Palestine / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- biography; drama
- Characters
- Larry; Joe Sacco
- Synopsis
- Sacco spends the night at Larry's place in Gaza Town.
- Reprints
- from Palestine (Fantagraphics, 1993 series) #6 (April 1994)
-
- Keywords
- autobiography
Indexer Notes
Dated March 1994
Jabalia
Palestine / comic story / 9 pages
- Genre
- biography; drama
- Characters
- Joe Sacco; Sameh; Old Man; Old Woman
- Synopsis
- Sameh is the perfect host for Sacco as he gives him an intensive tour of the Jabalia refugee camp.
- Reprints
- from Palestine (Fantagraphics, 1993 series) #7 (September 1994)
-
- Keywords
- autobiography
Indexer Notes
Dated April-May 1994
The Boys, part one
Palestine / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- biography; drama
- Characters
- Mohammed; Husein; Joe Sacco
- Synopsis
- Mohamed and Husein retrace for Joe the route the mourners took that marked the beginning of the first intifada in 1987.
- Reprints
- from Palestine (Fantagraphics, 1993 series) #7 (September 1994)
-
- Keywords
- autobiography
Indexer Notes
Dated June 1994
The Boys, part two
Palestine / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- biography; drama
- Characters
- Mohammed; Husein; Joe Sacco; Sameh
- Synopsis
- Mohamed and Husein relate what changed for them in the first few days of the intifada.
- Reprints
- from Palestine (Fantagraphics, 1993 series) #7 (September 1994)
-
- Keywords
- autobiography
Indexer Notes
Dated June 1994
The Boys, part three
Palestine / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- biography; drama
- Characters
- Firas; Joe Sacco; Sameh
- Synopsis
- Firas, a fifteen year old, details how he got involved with the “Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine” resistance group, and what he experienced after that.
- Reprints
- from Palestine (Fantagraphics, 1993 series) #7 (September 1994)
-
- Keywords
- autobiography
Indexer Notes
Dated June-August 1994
The Boys, part four
Palestine / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- biography; drama
- Characters
- Rifat; Joe Sacco; YMCA Program Head
- Synopsis
- Sacco interviews a seventeen-year-old who was shot by men in Arabic dress. A YMCA program head wonders how the large number of injured youth in Gaza can be integrated into society.
- Reprints
- from Palestine (Fantagraphics, 1993 series) #7 (September 1994)
-
- Keywords
- autobiography
Indexer Notes
Dated July 1994
Handicapped
Palestine / comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- biography; drama
- Characters
- Sameh; Joe Sacco
- Synopsis
- Sameh details the serious obstacles in developing programs for the handicapped in Gaza.
- Reprints
- from Palestine (Fantagraphics, 1993 series) #7 (September 1994)
-
- Keywords
- autobiography
Indexer Notes
Dated July-August 1994
Rewind
Palestine / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- biography; drama
- Characters
- Sameh; Joe Sacco; Sameh's Friend; Sameh's Brother
- Synopsis
- Sameh and Joe get hold of a forbidden video that shows amateur footage of the intifada. They wind up going home past curfew on foot.
- Reprints
- from Palestine (Fantagraphics, 1993 series) #7 (September 1994)
-
- Keywords
- autobiography
Indexer Notes
Dated August 1994
Pilgrimage
Palestine / comic story / 33 pages
- Genre
- biography; drama
- Characters
- Joe Sacco; Sameh; Refugee from 1948; Sameh's Mother; Sameh's Brother; Sameh's Nephew; Sameh's Niece; Yousef; Woman in Refugee Camp; Basel; Ahmed
- Synopsis
- Sameh and Joe visit the grave of the first person killed in the intifada. They then interview a refugee from 1948 who experienced firsthand the Jewish atrocities. Later, they spend the evening with Sameh's family. The following day, they talk to a woman who had two sons shot dead by Israeli soldiers. Finally, in Rafah, a family details how they were displaced after Egypt and Israel signed the peace agreement and redrew the border.
- Reprints
- from Palestine (Fantagraphics, 1993 series) #8 (March 1995)
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- Keywords
- autobiography
Indexer Notes
Dated September 1994- February 1995
Through Other Eyes
Palestine / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- biography; drama
- Characters
- Joe Sacco; Naomi; Paula
- Synopsis
- Sacco acts as a guide for two Israeli women in the Old City. He manages to convince one of them to walk with him through the Arab market.
- Reprints
- from Palestine (Fantagraphics, 1993 series) #9 (October 1995)
-
- Keywords
- autobiography
Indexer Notes
Dated April-June 1995
Tel Aviv
Palestine / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- biography; drama
- Characters
- Joe Sacco; Naomi; Paula
- Synopsis
- The two women enjoy the sunny day in Tel Aviv. They give their opinions on the viability of the peace process and express fatigue at Israel having to apologize all the time.
- Reprints
- from Palestine (Fantagraphics, 1993 series) #9 (October 1995)
-
- Keywords
- autobiography
Indexer Notes
Dated June 1995
Lucky Reunion
Palestine / comic story / 3 pages
- Genre
- biography; drama
- Characters
- Joe Sacco; Jabril
- Synopsis
- In Nablus, Sacco encounters Jabril, one of his friends from the Balata refugee camp.
- Reprints
- from Palestine (Fantagraphics, 1993 series) #9 (October 1995)
-
- Keywords
- autobiography
Indexer Notes
Dated June 1995
Sugar
Palestine / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- biography; drama
- Characters
- Palestinian Nurse; Mother; Joe Sacco
- Synopsis
- Sacco talks to a woman who has an Australian lover she feels she could never marry.
- Reprints
- from Palestine (Fantagraphics, 1993 series) #9 (October 1995)
-
- Keywords
- autobiography
Indexer Notes
Dated July 1995
Nablus
Palestine / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- biography; drama
- Characters
- Joe Sacco; Taxi Driver
- Synopsis
- Sacco witnesses Israeli soldiers accost several vendors and apprehend one of them in Nablus.
- Reprints
- from Palestine (Fantagraphics, 1993 series) #9 (October 1995)
-
- Keywords
- autobiography
Indexer Notes
Dated June-July 1995
Roadblock
Palestine / comic story / 3 pages
- Genre
- biography; drama
- Characters
- Mother; “Romeo;” Joe Sacco
- Synopsis
- Sacco is stuck in a taxi during a roadblock with a screaming baby nearby and fighter-bombers circling overhead.
- Reprints
- from Palestine (Fantagraphics, 1993 series) #9 (October 1995)
-
- Keywords
- autobiography
Indexer Notes
Dated July 1995
Jenin
Palestine / comic story / 3 pages
- Genre
- biography; drama
- Characters
- Older Man; Joe Sacco; Older Man's Friend
- Synopsis
- In Jenin, Sacco talks to a Shakespeare-quoting man who not only is extremely cynical about peace coming from any side in the conflict, but is extremely cynical about the peace process itself.
- Reprints
- from Palestine (Fantagraphics, 1993 series) #9 (October 1995)
-
- Keywords
- autobiography
Indexer Notes
Dated August 1995
A Boy in the Rain
Palestine / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- biography; drama
- Characters
- Irishman; Joe Sacco; Jewish Lady; Israeli; Palestinian Boy
- Synopsis
- Sacco recalls his acquaintance with a religious Oxford student in Jerusalem as well as some conversations he had with others concerning the peace process. The last sequence describes the time he saw some Israeli soldiers make a boy stand out in the pouring rain while they questioned him. This for him sums up the possible future outcomes for peace in the area.
- Reprints
- from Palestine (Fantagraphics, 1993 series) #9 (October 1995)
-
- Keywords
- autobiography
Indexer Notes
Dated August 1995
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Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Palestine -
1.
[no title indexed]
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2.
Palestine: In the Gaza Strip
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3.
Introduction
Palestine -
4.
Chapter One
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5.
Refugeeland
Palestine -
6.
Rooms
Palestine -
7.
Law
Palestine -
8.
Black Coffee
Palestine -
9.
Sons of the Curfew
Palestine -
10.
Tomatoes
Palestine -
11.
One Shekel to Gaza Town
Palestine -
12.
Edward Said
Palestine -
13.
Chapter Two
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14.
Jabalia
Palestine -
15.
The Boys, part one
Palestine -
16.
The Boys, part two
Palestine -
17.
The Boys, part three
Palestine -
18.
The Boys, part four
Palestine -
19.
Handicapped
Palestine -
20.
Rewind
Palestine -
21.
Chapter Three
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22.
Pilgrimage
Palestine -
23.
Chapter Four
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24.
Through Other Eyes
Palestine -
25.
Tel Aviv
Palestine -
26.
Lucky Reunion
Palestine -
27.
Sugar
Palestine -
28.
Nablus
Palestine -
29.
Roadblock
Palestine -
30.
Jenin
Palestine -
31.
A Boy in the Rain
Palestine -
32.
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- Gregory Fischer
- Steven Samuels
- Jim Van Dore
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