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GRITtv: Joe Sacco: Images Can Transport You
In Footnotes in Gaza: A Graphic Novel, Joe Sacco looks back at 1956 in Gaza, when one bloody day in Rafah left 111 Palestinians dead. He tells the story in intricate pictures as well as the words of the people who survived that day, and like his other graphic works, he combines journalism with cartooning to create a hybrid art form that not only relates a story, but transports the reader back there. Sacco joined Laura in studio recently to discuss his work, and why he chooses the medium he does to tell these riveting stories.
Email this pageGRITtv: Feb. 9, 2010
The blame has been flying -- it's Obama's fault, Rahm Emanuel's, Harry Reid's -- but what if the problem simply is the Senate? We ask the New Yorker's Hendrik Hertzberg, Lawrence Lessig and Nancy Scola of the Personal Democracy Forum. Lisa Graves is the publisher of SourceWatch.org, which writes the history of the people, companies and front groups trying to shape public policy. She weighs in on the recent Citizens United decision. Joe Sacco discusses his work and why he chooses the medium he does to tell these riveting stories. We talk a lot about the future of news and newspapers around here, but what about the paper that the news is printed on? A video from Inform Inc, directed by Virginia Ramsey, Brian Ohl, and Eleanor Saunders, looks at paper, recycling, and its impact on the environment. And another from our friends at Street Films looks at the changes to Times Square. Finally, Laura points out the need for public, non-ad-supported media.
GRITtv: Queering the Lines With Cartoons
Cartoons have always dealt with the subversive but our guests today share with us how identity politics - questions of gender, race, class, sexuality - find an arena for exploration and expression through this medium. We talk to three queer cartoonists -- Jennifer Camper, Carlo Quispe and Erika Lopez -- about what the medium represents for them.
