"Joe Sacco is a cartoonist, graphic novelist and journalist; he's best-known for his dispatches from today's regions of conflict, like the Middle East and Bosnia, in cartoon form. But for his latest book, The Great War, Sacco turns his eye on history. He's recreated of one of the worst battles of World War I, the first day of the Battle of the Somme, from its hopeful beginning to its brutal end. The book is unconventional in form — it folds out to form a 24-foot-long panorama. And while a separate author's note provides historical context, the book itself is wordless; no dialogue, no captions."
NPR: The Great War (Video)
Slate: A 24-foot Panorama of the Most Infamous Day of World War
TCJ: The Great War: July 1, 1916
W.W. Norton
NYT: Solemn Panorama of Battle
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