Graphic journeys: virtual dark tourism in Joe Sacco's Palestine and Footnotes in Gaza.
The article examines how Joe Sacco's war comics Palestine (1993) and Footnotes in Gaza (2009) engender virtual dark tourism experience for its readers through the Occupied Territories using the unique possibilities of the graphic medium such as sequential arrangement of panels, cartographic represen...
| Publicado en: | Visual Studies Vol. 41; no. 1; pp. 216 - 234 |
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Feb2026
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