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Joe Sacco

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Joe Sacco (born October 2, 1960) is a Maltese-American cartoonist and journalist. [1]

98 relations: Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi, Adamson Awards, American Book Awards, American Dream, American Splendor, Autobiographical comics, Bosnian War, Charlie Hebdo shooting, Chris Hedges, Christopher Hitchens bibliography, Comics journalism, Craig Thompson, Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, Dennis Eichhorn, Don Blankenship, Drawn and Quarterly, Eagle Award (comics), Elettra Stamboulis, Fantagraphics Books, Fat Possum Records, Footnotes in Gaza, Former prizes of the Angoulême International Comics Festival, Fumetto International Comics Festival, Gianluca Costantini, Goražde, Habibi (graphic novel), Harvey Pekar, Hillary Chute, Honk (magazine), Ignatz Award, InguineMAH!gazine, Inverted totalitarianism, It Was the War of the Trenches, J. R. Williams (comics), John Berger, Josh Neufeld, Kim Thompson, Komikazen, Lahore Literary Festival, Leon Klinghoffer, List of American comics, List of award-winning graphic novels, List of comics creators, List of Comics Journal interview subjects, List of Eisner Award winners, List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 2001, List of Maltese people, List of people from Portland, Oregon, List of Troféu HQ Mix winners, List of United States Artists (USA) Fellowship recipients, ..., Locos, Mack McFarland, Maltese Americans, Maverick (Dark Horse), Max & Moritz Prize, Mia Kirshner, Non-fiction comics, Notes from a Defeatist, October 2, Oregon Book Award, Palestine (comics), Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Poverty in the United States, Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro, Rafah massacre, Rutu Modan, Sacco (disambiguation), Sacrifice zone, Safe Area Goražde, Siege of Sarajevo, State by State, Sunset High School (Beaverton, Oregon), Talk of the Town (magazine), The Big Book Of, The Fixer (comics), The I Live Here Projects, The Miracle Workers, The Narrative Corpse, The Polysyllabic Spree, The Ridenhour Prizes, Tim Army, Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, United Kingdom Comic Art Convention, University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication, Višegrad massacres, Waltz with Bashir, War correspondent, War's End, Weirdo (comics), Zahra's Paradise, Zero Zero (comics), 1998 in comics, 2005 in comics, 2006 in comics, 2008–09 NHL season, 2009–10 NHL season, 2010s in sociology. Expand index (48 more) »

Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi

Abdel Aziz Ali Abdul Majid al-Rantisi (عبد العزيز علي عبد المجيد الحفيظ الرنتيسي; 23 October 1947 – 17 April 2004), nicknamed the "Lion of Palestine", was the co-founder of the Palestinian movement Hamas along with Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.

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Adamson Awards

Adamson Awards is a Swedish award awarded to notable cartoonists, named after the famous Swedish comic strip "Adamson" (Silent Sam).

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American Book Awards

The American Book Award is an American literary award that annually recognizes a set of books and people for "outstanding literary achievement".

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American Dream

The American Dream is a national ethos of the United States, the set of ideals (democracy, rights, liberty, opportunity and equality) in which freedom includes the opportunity for prosperity and success, as well as an upward social mobility for the family and children, achieved through hard work in a society with few barriers.

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American Splendor

American Splendor is a series of autobiographical comic books written by Harvey Pekar and drawn by a variety of artists.

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Autobiographical comics

Autobiographical comics (often referred to in the comics field as simply autobio) are autobiography in the form of comic books or comic strips.

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Bosnian War

The Bosnian War was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995.

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Charlie Hebdo shooting

On 7 January 2015 at about 11:30 local time, two brothers, Saïd and Chérif Kouachi, forced their way into the offices of the French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris.

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Chris Hedges

Christopher Lynn Hedges (born September 18, 1956) is an American journalist, Presbyterian minister, and visiting Princeton University lecturer.

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Christopher Hitchens bibliography

Christopher Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011) was a prolific English-American author, political journalist and literary critic.

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Comics journalism

Comics journalism, or Graphic journalism, is a form of journalism that covers news or non-fiction events using the framework of comics – a combination of words and drawn images.

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Craig Thompson

Craig Matthew Thompson (born September 21, 1975) is a graphic novelist best known for his books Good-bye, Chunky Rice (1999), Blankets (2003), Carnet de Voyage (2004), and Habibi (2011).

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Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt

Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt is a 2012 illustrated non-fiction book authored by Chris Hedges and illustrated by Joe Sacco, chronicling life in poverty in different parts of the United States.

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Dennis Eichhorn

Dennis P. Eichhorn (August 19, 1945 – October 8, 2015) was an American writer, best known for his adult-oriented autobiographical comic book series Real Stuff.

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Don Blankenship

Donald Leon Blankenship (born March 14, 1950) is an American former business executive, convicted criminal and third-party candidate for the United States Senate in West Virginia in 2018.

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Drawn and Quarterly

Drawn and Quarterly is a publishing company based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, specializing in comics.

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Eagle Award (comics)

The Eagle Award was a series of awards for comic book titles and creators.

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Elettra Stamboulis

Elettra Stamboulis (born December 31, 1969) in Bologna, Italy, is a curator, professor, writer, and comic writer.

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Fantagraphics Books

Fantagraphics Books is an American publisher of alternative comics, classic comic strip anthologies, magazines, graphic novels, and the erotic Eros Comix imprint.

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Fat Possum Records

Fat Possum Records is an American independent record label based in Water Valley and Oxford, Mississippi.

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Footnotes in Gaza

Footnotes in Gaza is a journalistic graphic novel by Joe Sacco about two bloody incidents during the Suez Crisis.

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Former prizes of the Angoulême International Comics Festival

This is a list of awards and prizes formerly awarded at the Angoulême International Comics Festival.

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Fumetto International Comics Festival

The Fumetto International Comics Festival is held annually at Lucerne, Switzerland.

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Gianluca Costantini

Gianluca Costantini (born December 19, 1971) in Ravenna, Italy, is a cartoonist, artist, Comic journalist, and activist.

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Goražde

Goražde (Горажде) is a city and the administrative center of Bosnian-Podrinje Canton Goražde of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Habibi (graphic novel)

Habibi is a graphic novel by Craig Thompson published by Pantheon in September 2011.

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Harvey Pekar

Harvey Lawrence Pekar (October 8, 1939 – July 12, 2010) was an American underground comic book writer, music critic, and media personality, best known for his autobiographical American Splendor comic series.

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Hillary Chute

Hillary Chute (born 1976 in Boston, MA) is an American literary scholar and an expert on comics and graphic narratives.

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Honk (magazine)

Honk! was an American comics magazine published in the 1980s by Fantagraphics Books, featuring creator interviews, reviews, satirical articles, and original comic strips.

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Ignatz Award

The Ignatz Awards are intended to recognize outstanding achievements in comics and cartooning by small press creators or creator-owned projects published by larger publishers.

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InguineMAH!gazine

inguineMAH!gazine is an Italian comics anthology magazine with a left-wing political focus, founded in 2003 by Ravenna and Bologna comic book artist Gianluca Costantini and Paper Resistance, web designer Marco Lobietti, writer Elettra Stamboulis.

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Inverted totalitarianism

The political philosopher Sheldon Wolin coined the term inverted totalitarianism in 2003 to describe what he saw as the emerging form of government of the United States.

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It Was the War of the Trenches

It Was the War of the Trenches (original title: C'était la guerre des tranchées) is a 1993 graphic novel by Jacques Tardi about World War I. It is acclaimed as one of his best works and received praise from Art Spiegelman and Joe Sacco.

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J. R. Williams (comics)

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John Berger

John Peter Berger (5 November 1926 – 2 January 2017) was an English art critic, novelist, painter and poet.

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Josh Neufeld

Josh Neufeld (born August 9, 1967) is an alternative cartoonist known for his nonfiction comics on subjects like Hurricane Katrina, international travel, and finance, as well as his collaborations with writers like Harvey Pekar and Brooke Gladstone.

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Kim Thompson

Kim Thompson (September 25, 1956 – June 19, 2013) was an American comic book editor, translator, and publisher, best known as vice president and co-publisher of Seattle-based Fantagraphics Books.

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Komikazen

The Komikazen International Reality Comics Festival (Komikazen festival internazionale del fumetto di realtà) is an annual festival focusing on non-fiction comics.

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Lahore Literary Festival

The Lahore Literary Festival (LLF) is an international literary festival held annually in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.

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Leon Klinghoffer

Leon Klinghoffer (September 24, 1916 – October 8, 1985) was a Jewish-American, disabled and wheelchair bound, who was shot and killed and thrown overboard by members of the terrorist group known as the Palestine Liberation Front who hijacked the cruise ship Achille Lauro in 1985.

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List of American comics

This is a list of American comics, by publishing company.

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List of award-winning graphic novels

This is a list of graphic novels which have won a notable award.

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List of comics creators

This is a list of comics creators.

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List of Comics Journal interview subjects

The Comics Journal is an American magazine of news and criticism published by Fantagraphics Books and pertaining to comic books and strips.

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List of Eisner Award winners

This article is a list of winners of the Eisner Award, sorted by category.

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List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 2001

List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 2001.

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List of Maltese people

This is a list of notable Maltese people including those not born in, or current residents of, Malta; they are Maltese nationals.

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List of people from Portland, Oregon

Portland is a port city in the U.S. state of Oregon located at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia Rivers.

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List of Troféu HQ Mix winners

This article is a list of winners of Troféu HQ Mix, sorted by category.

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List of United States Artists (USA) Fellowship recipients

This is a list of recipients of United States Artists (USA) Fellowship grants.

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Locos

Locos: A Comedy of Gestures is the first novel of Spanish-born American writer Felipe Alfau (1902–1999), written in 1928 and published in 1936.

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Mack McFarland

Mack McFarland is an curator and artist living in Portland, Oregon.

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Maltese Americans

Maltese Americans are Americans with Maltese ancestry.

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Maverick (Dark Horse)

Maverick is a defunct imprint of Dark Horse Comics, created in 1999 by editor Diana Schutz for creator-owned works, to "provid a home for creator-owned properties—providing a certain identity to those creator-owned labors of love that distinguishes them from Dark Horse's licensed books." The imprint, Dark Horse's second attempt at a creator-owned imprint (after "Legend") was relatively short-lived, publishing fewer than fifty issues/titles between 1999 and 2002.

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Max & Moritz Prize

The Max & Moritz Prize is a prize for comic books, comic strips, and other similar materials which has been awarded at each of the biennial International Comics Shows of Erlangen since 1984.

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Mia Kirshner

Mia Kirshner (born January 25, 1975) (though some sources say 1976) is a Canadian actress, writer and social activist who works in movies and television series.

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Non-fiction comics

Non-fiction comics, also known as graphic non-fiction, is non-fiction in the comics medium, embracing a variety of formats from comic strips to trade paperbacks.

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Notes from a Defeatist

Notes from a Defeatist is a collection of short journalistic comics by Joe Sacco.

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October 2

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Oregon Book Award

The Oregon Book Awards are presented annually by Literary Arts, Inc. for "the finest accomplishments by Oregon writers who work in genres of poetry, fiction, literary nonfiction, drama and young readers literature." Oregon Book Award was founded in 1987 by Brian Booth and Oregon Institute for Literary Arts (OILA).

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Palestine (comics)

Palestine is a non-fiction graphic novel written and drawn by Joe Sacco about his experiences in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in December 1991 and January 1992.

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Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series

Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series is a lecture series established by the University of Michigan School of Art & Design.

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Pine Ridge Indian Reservation

The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (Wazí Aháŋhaŋ Oyáŋke), also called Pine Ridge Agency, is an Oglala Lakota Native American reservation located in the U.S. state of South Dakota.

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Poverty in the United States

Poverty is a state of deprivation, lacking the usual or socially acceptable amount of money or material possessions.

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Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro

Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro (21 March 1846 – 23 January 1905) was a Portuguese artist known for his illustration, caricatures, sculpture, and ceramics designs.

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Rafah massacre

The Rafah massacre occurred on November 12, 1956, during Israel's occupation of the Sinai Peninsula and Gaza Protectorate following the Suez Crisis.

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Rutu Modan

Rutu Modan (רותו מודן, born 1966) is an Israeli illustrator and comic book artist.

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Sacco (disambiguation)

Sacco is a comune (municipality) in southern Italy.

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Sacrifice zone

A sacrifice zone or sacrifice area (often termed a national sacrifice zone or national sacrifice area) is a geographic area that has been permanently impaired by environmental damage or economic disinvestment.

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Safe Area Goražde

Safe Area Goražde is a journalistic comic book about the Bosnian War, written by Joe Sacco.

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Siege of Sarajevo

The Siege of Sarajevo was the siege of the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the longest of a capital city in the history of modern warfare.

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State by State

State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America is a collection of pieces about the United States, with one essay on each of the fifty states.

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Sunset High School (Beaverton, Oregon)

Sunset High School is a public high school in Beaverton, Oregon, United States.

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Talk of the Town (magazine)

Talk of the Town was a short-lived quality arts supplement distributed with London copies of the UK Independent on Sunday newspaper from 2003 to 2004.

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The Big Book Of

The Big Book Of is a series of graphic novel anthologies published by American company DC Comics imprint Paradox Press.

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The Fixer (comics)

The Fixer is a journalistic comic on the Bosnian War, written by Joe Sacco.

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The I Live Here Projects

The I Live Here Foundation, also commonly referred to as the I Live Here Projects, is a United States 501(c)(3) non profit organization that tells the stories of silenced and unheard people around the world through a series of books and other media projects.

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The Miracle Workers

The Miracle Workers were a rock and roll band in the 1980s, who began as a garage rock revival band in Portland, Oregon.

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The Narrative Corpse

The Narrative Corpse is a chain story, or comic jam, by 69 all-star cartoonists based on Le Cadavre Exquis (see Exquisite corpse), a popular game played by André Breton and his Surrealist friends to break free from the constraints of rational thought.

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The Polysyllabic Spree

The Polysyllabic Tree is a 2004 collection of Nick Hornby's "Stuff I've Been Reading" columns in The Believer.

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The Ridenhour Prizes

The Ridenhour Prizes are awards in four categories given annually in recognition of those "who persevere in acts of truth-telling that protect the public interest, promote social justice or illuminate a more just vision of society".

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Tim Army

Tim Army (born April 26, 1963) is an American former professional ice hockey player.

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Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern

Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern is an American literary journal, typically containing short stories, reportage, and illustrations.

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United Kingdom Comic Art Convention

The United Kingdom Comic Art Convention (UKCAC) was a British comic book convention which was held between 1985 and 1998.

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University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication

The University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication (SOJC) is a public post-secondary school in the U.S. state of Oregon.

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Višegrad massacres

The Višegrad massacres were acts of mass murder committed against the Bosniak civilian population of the town and municipality of Višegrad during the ethnic cleansing of eastern Bosnia by Serb police and military forces during the spring and summer of 1992, at the start of the Bosnian War.

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Waltz with Bashir

Waltz with Bashir (ואלס עם באשיר, translit. Vals Im Bashir) is a 2008 Israeli animated war documentary film written and directed by Ari Folman.

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War correspondent

A war correspondent is a journalist who covers stories firsthand from a war zone.

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War's End

War's End is a journalistic comic about the Bosnian War written by Joe Sacco.

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Weirdo (comics)

Weirdo is a magazine-sized comics anthology created by Robert Crumb and published by Last Gasp from 1981 to 1993.

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Zahra's Paradise

Zahra's Paradise (Persian: بهشت زهرا Behesht-e Zahra) is a webcomic and graphic novel by Amir Soltani and Khalil set in modern Iran.

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Zero Zero (comics)

Zero Zero was an alternative comics anthology published by Fantagraphics Books from 1995 to 2000.

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1998 in comics

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2005 in comics

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2006 in comics

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2008–09 NHL season

The 2008–09 NHL season was the 92nd season of operation (91st season of play) of the National Hockey League (NHL).

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2009–10 NHL season

The 2009–10 NHL season was the 93rd season of operation (92nd season of play) of the National Hockey League (NHL).

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2010s in sociology

The following events related to sociology occurred in the 2010s.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Sacco

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