About this Event
Joe Sacco—widely regarded as a pioneer of graphic journalism— joins veteran war correspondent Anthony Loyd for a conversation about the politics of storytelling, the ethics of bearing witness, and the power of comics to confront uncomfortable truths.
In his new book, Joe Sacco immerses himself in Uttar Pradesh, speaking to government officials, political leaders, village chiefs, and especially the victims, who were mostly landless peasants, in a quest to understand this riot as an archetype of political violence. In the process, he probes the role of savagery in a democracy; the power of crowds, rather than leaders, to influence the course of events; the collision of competing narratives; and the accounts that perpetrators construct to explain away their participation in bloodshed.
Sacco has chronicled the urgent histories that define the world around us, from the Great War to Gaza. Here, the award winning cartoonist turns his masterful visual reportage to a story that is specific to India but with implications and resonance for us all.
Joe Sacco, one of the world's greatest cartoonists, is widely hailed as the creator of war reportage comics. He is the author of, among other books,Palestine, which received the American Book Award, andSafe Area: Goražde, which won the Eisner Award and was named aNew York Times notable book andTime magazine's best comic book of 2000. His books have been translated into fourteen languages and his comics reporting has appeared inDetails,The New York Times Magazine,Time,Harper'sand theGuardian. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
Anthony Loyd has been writing for the Times for over thirty years. He began his career reporting from the Bosnian war in 1993 and has since worked in multiple conflicts, including those in Ukraine, Chechnya, Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Kosovo, Libya, Sierra Leone and the Central African Republic. His special reports have included eye-witness dispatches from the siege of Sarajevo, the genocide in Srebrenica, the overthrow of the Taliban in 2001, the defeat of Islamic State in Mosul, Muammar Gaddafi's downfall in Libya, and the withdrawal of the US-led coalition from Afghanistan in 2021. Anthony exposed the use of Sarin gas by the Assad regime in Syria in 2013, and later discovered and interviewed Shamima Begum in 2019. His Times multimedia projects have included the short film 'Another Man's War' from Ukraine, and the highly acclaimed podcast series 'Last Man Standing'. Among his many awards for The Times the reporter has won foreign correspondent of the year five times in the British Press Awards , and twice won the prestigious Prix Bayeux-Calvados for war correspondents.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, London, United Kingdom
GBP 5.94 to GBP 16.63
