Joe Sacco's books offer both sharp insight into the complexities of global politics and extraordinary glimpses of the everyday people who live in a war zones. He has been favorably compared with Pulitzer-Prize winner Art Spiegelman for his ability to brilliantly navigate such socially and politically-sensitive subject matter within the comic book medium. Sacco's groundbreaking first book, Palestine, was based on the author's months of research in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the early 1990s, where he conducted more than 100 interviews with Palestinians and Jews.