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September 10, 2025The Journal of Popular CultureOpen Access

Disconsolate Suffering: Joe Sacco's Comics Journalism and the Ambivalence of Humanitarian Witnessing

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BSBrian S. Scott

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Close analysis of Sacco's Palestine reveals the media's complicity in conflict narratives, highlighting systemic violence.

Key Points

  • Sacco's work challenges the comforting narratives often found in mass media, exposing the true realities of conflict.
  • Through graphic journalism, Sacco critiques the role of media in shaping perceptions of trauma and violence.
  • His approach demands that readers confront the ethics of witnessing rather than being mere observers of suffering.
  • The critique in Palestine emphasizes the necessity for deeper engagement with the ongoing realities of dispossession and conflict.

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Brian S. Scott (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68c199da9b7b07f3a061b03fhttps://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.70021
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