Say the words “war journalism” and the first image that comes to mind is of a grizzly, brow-beaten correspondent clutching a microphone in a bullet-ridden, 30-second slot on the evening news. It’s certainly not of a comic book filled with meticulously rendered explosions and heartbreakingly candid interviews – but that’s how war appears in the hands of Joe Sacco. The journalist and comics artist has delivered a career’s worth of first-hand reportage from some of the world’s most hostile…
