Art Spiegelman and Joe Sacco combine in a plea referring back to back Hamas and Netanyahu

A link to tell the fractures of two peoples. Two comic strip legends, Art Spiegelman and Joe Sacco, unite their pencils and thoughts in a graphic mini-recit kneaded about the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis after the ceasefire in Gaza negotiated between Israel and Hamas.

These three plates, published recently in the United States and taken over in several international press titles (The Guardian, The countrythe French weekly The 1…), take the form of a dialogue, in the ruins of Gaza, between the American author of Maus (Graphic monument on the Shoah) and his compatriot designer-journalist who devoted several works to Gaza and the Palestinians.

“What happened on October 7 paralyzed me. What was your reaction, art? »»asks Joe Sacco, 64, in the first box of this story entitled Never Again ! And Again… and Again… and Again.... “Horror in the face of the extent of the atrocities. Then horror in the face of the magnitude of the response of Israel! Bad for the Jews “replied Art Spiegelman, 77, who appears in the guise of a mouse as in Maus.

 

“Do you imagine a world where Israel wouldn’t exist?” »»questions Joe Sacco. ” Too late ! There is … “

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There follows a dialogue which brews, in a few boxes, the burning subjects which arose after the bloody attack of Hamas of October 7, 2023 and the murderous response of the Israeli army: the accusations of “Genocide”rejected by Israel; The outbreak of anti -Semitism or the origins of the Israeli State. All while trying to keep a form of balance.

“Do you imagine a world where Israel wouldn’t exist?” »»questions Joe Sacco. ” Too late ! There is … “replies his co -author. “And none of the two parts has any other place to go”resumes Sacco. “Yep, you can’t put the tooth in the tube”summarizes Spiegelman, leaning on a “Holy toothpaste” from which a paste which takes the form of Israel and the Palestinian territories escapes.

More than 48,000 dead in Gaza

Their brief conversation, in the middle of the ruins, ends on a dark observation and on the drawing of the two authors carrying flags “Never again … for anyone!” »». “You know, art, it may take more shiny minds than ours to find a just solution”lance Sacco. “Yeah, a just solution would be much better than a final solution”replied Spiegelman.

The October 7 attack led by Hamas resulted in the death of 1,210 people on the Israeli side, mostly civilians, and the hostage of many civilians. The Israeli offensive carried out in retaliation in Gaza left at least 48,222 dead, mostly civilians, according to data from the Ministry of Hamas, deemed reliable by the UN.