Sacco is from Malta. He immigrated here, I think when he was 11 or 12, and created a whole genre of comics journalism: He embeds himself in conflict zones, then writes a graphic novel. Palestine is incredibly powerful and it's obviously still relevant. It was the story of Palestine in the '90s. That's the book to go to if you wanted to start reading Joe Sacco.
We have to understand economics for ourselves, or we're at the mercy of any charlatan, warns writer Michael Goodwin. He himself has contributed his two cents: first, he delved into decades of treatises and thinkers; then, in Economix (2012), he summarized in comic strips with illustrations by Dan E. Burr what he had gleaned: theories, practices, and pitfalls of the last two centuries of development.
The Watchmen Collector's Edition has been discounted to $70, and this version reproduces the entire series as 12 single-issue hardcovers, utilizing high-quality, recolored pages from Watchmen: Absolute Edition.
