FREE! THIS THURSDAY! Meet artist Joe Sacco and hear about his life and career as a graphic/comic artist

DOG STAR knows Joe Sacco's earlier books "Palestine" and "The Fixer."  Now, we're excited to meet him in person and hear him talk about his latest graphic text - a mix of reporting and comic artistry.


Anybody interested in graphic  / comic artists and their work will be sure to attend this event!


Thursday, January 21, 7:00pm


Join us at the main library of the Brooklyn Public Library and it is EASY TO REACH:


2/3 train to Grand Army Plaza and across the street is the library building.


The new Dweck Center - where this event will be held - is a terrific new theater where we saw Junot Diaz last year!


More here at Flavorpill 


Here for Dweck Center calendar of events 


Here for more on Joe Sacco on Wikipedia 

Thursday, January 21, 7:00PM Central Library, Dweck Center The Art of Nonfiction: Joe Sacco Sacco, a cartoonist-reporter, discusses Footnotes in Gaza, a sweeping investigation of a forgotten crime in the most vexed of places -- Rafah, a town at the tip of the Gaza Strip. Spanning fifty years, moving between one war and the next, the book is alive with the voices of fugitives and schoolchildren, widows and sheikhs.