War on Gaza by Joe Sacco is a Furious Cry in Ink.
Joe Sacco’s War on Gaza is not a book its anger. A 32-page graphic scream against the machinery of war, hypocrisy, and moral cowardice. Sacco wields satire like a sledgehammer and compassion like a scalpel. We’ve seen this from Sacco before.
Genocidal Self-Defense. Sacco coins the term with bitter irony, mocking the twisted logic used to justify mass slaughter by Netanyahu. The U.S. president appears with a blazing “G” on his forehead, a visual indictment of complicity that’s as grotesque as it is unforgettable. From headless babies gushing blood to tanks posing for selfies amid rubble, Sacco’s art is a brutal mirror held up to a world that mostly looks away.
There’s no No Red Lines for Sacco. He skewers the idea that there are limits to violence when the powerful decide there aren’t.
This isn’t balanced journalism, it’s anger. Sacco abandons neutrality to “raise the voice for those crushed beneath the weight of geopolitics and indifference. It’s messy but it feels necessary.
Recommended.
Also nominated for a 2025 Eisner Award.
Tony Amis
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