Joe Sacco gives graphic novels a bad name

The Toronto Star pays lip service to lefty propagandist Joe Sacco, master of anti-Israel propaganda, and begins by letting us know that:

Joe Sacco, like any veteran foreign correspondent, yearns to be where the action is. A part of him would have liked nothing better than to have been camped out in Cairo’s Tahrir Square last month with the protesters who eventually ended the 30-year reign of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

Yes, the same protestors who support the Muslim Brotherhood, sharia and caliphate law for Egypt, violated Lara Logan, and whom William Kristol was stupid enough to fawn over at her expense, which is even worse than his attack on Glenn Beck when you think about it.

“It takes me time to report. I like to sink into the situation. But beyond that, it takes a long time to write and draw my stuff, especially the drawing. You can report that there are 200,000 people in Tahrir Square, but if you want to draw the scene it takes a lot of effort.”

Sacco, paying a rare visit to Toronto this week, will elucidate his working process during a public appearance Thursday at the University of Toronto’s Innis Town Hall. It is a process that has produced three groundbreaking books: Safe Area Gorazde, a 2000 account of the war in the former Yugoslavia; Palestine, a 2001 compilation of earlier reporting that won a U.S. National Book Award; and, most recently, 2009’s Footnotes in Gaza, a historical investigation into two 1956 massacres that resulted in the death of nearly 400 Palestinians.

And what about the Israeli side? Or, what proof does he have that the "palestinians" didn't attack violently first? As noted here, what happened at the time was that Egypt attempted to invade Israel through Gaza, which they had some control over at the time. Sacco is a sick, blatant man, and as Candace de Russy once noted, Sacco once gave a lecture where he asked "who the hell cares about objectivity?" If he doesn't, how can we be convinced that his work is sincere?

“The term ‘graphic novels’ is a way of making adults feel like they’re not buying a comic book,” he says. “I call them comic books. And I call myself a cartoonist, who is working in the field of journalism.”

And I call him a leftist propaganda manufacturer working in the field. As an adult myself, I'd rather buy a comic, even something as entry level as Richie Rich, than this disgraceful man's libels. They may not be comic books, but they're not graphic novels either; they're just trash, and his artwork has all the star appeal of a Volkswagen scrap pile. As you'll notice in the picture on the side, he depicts Israel as the aggressor in a tank ploughing though "helpless" Islamists in Gaza, in an otherwise one-dimensional fashion.

Rigorousness aside Sacco, like Orwell and Thompson before him, has no qualms about inserting — or in this case, drawing — himself into the story. His reporting not only seeks the truth, it does so in a way that graphically illustrates for the reader how the reporting was done.

He may not think so, but he's exactly the kind of person whom Orwell cited as a problem - a Ministry of Truth type, and why wouldn't I be surpried if Sacco were a 9-11 Truther to boot?

Found via CBR's Robot 6 blog in a roundup by Kevin Melrose, the same man who implied a few months ago that people like me and Warner Huston "manufacture" the news, yet here he goes de facto supporting someone just like that on the left. Yep, that's mighty rich alright.