Disaster Drawn: Visual Witness, Comics, and Documentary Form

by Hillary L. Chute

In hard-hitting accounts of Auschwitz, Bosnia, Palestine, and Hiroshima's Ground Zero, comics display a stunning capacity to bear witness to trauma. Investigating how hand-drawn comics has come of age as a serious medium for engaging history, Disaster Drawn explores the ways graphic narratives by diverse artists, including Jacques Callot, Francisco Goya, Keiji Nakazawa, Art Spiegelman, and Joe Sacco, document the disasters of war.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674504518
• ISBN13: 9780674504516
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.4"