However, in the explanatory booklet that accompanies this wordless frieze – his sprawling drawing opens out, concertina-style and white hot, from between two cool, green covers – Sacco explains that the first world war has been an interest since his childhood in Australia, when on 25 April every year, he and his classmates commemorated the anniversary of the Anzac landings at Gallipoli. So it's something of a surprise to discover that he has created a panorama of the first day of the battle of the Somme – and I must admit that the first time I examined The Great War, a tiny part of me kept expecting to find Sacco himself, inscrutable behind his round spectacles, in his painfully detailed drawings of the trenches. T he Maltese-American cartoonist Joe Sacco is best known for his reportage, a form he has made uniquely his own his books Palestine and Safe Area Gorazde are classics of their kind.
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