"Collateral Damage" by Lebanese artist Jana Traboulsi. Courtesy of Cartoonists for Palestine.
Sitting on a sofa, his cat perched next to him, a man smokes and stares at his computer screen and tries to verbalize his frustration at the deadly images coming from Gaza. But "words do not seem to be enough to describe the gravity of the genocide," reads the first panel of the comic by Yazan al-Saadi and drawn by Kazimir Lee, starting off a compilation gathered by the collective "Cartoonists for Palestine."There's a copy of the graphic novel "Palestine" by Joe Sacco on the coffee table and underneath it, "Maus," the cult classic by Art Spiegelman about the Holocaust. Placing these two iconic comics next to a blank sheet, Yazan al-Saadi, co-founder of this collective born in the wake of the latest conflict in Gaza, sets the tone. Sometimes, words are not enough, and the illustrative nature of...
Sitting on a sofa, his cat perched next to him, a man smokes and stares at his computer screen and tries to verbalize his frustration at the deadly images coming from Gaza. But "words do not seem to be enough to describe the gravity of the genocide," reads the first panel of the comic by Yazan al-Saadi and drawn by Kazimir Lee, starting off a compilation gathered by the collective "Cartoonists for Palestine."There's a copy of the graphic novel "Palestine" by Joe Sacco on the coffee table and underneath it, "Maus," the cult classic by Art Spiegelman about the Holocaust. Placing these two iconic comics next to a blank sheet, Yazan al-Saadi, co-founder of this collective born in the wake of the latest conflict in Gaza, sets the tone. Sometimes, words are not enough, and the illustrative nature...