Comics and the Middle East

A review of the “Big Three” of independent comics that essentialise the unspeakable in a surreal, tragic conflict

Covers of Art Spiegelman’s Maus, Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis and Joe Sacco’s Palestine

Graphic novels are expensive books that can also be rare and obscure. London’s council libraries have, fortunately, provided me access to books that I could only dream about reading. Even better, they introduced me to multiple…