Comic reportage

Kushinagar, which appeared originally in French in XXI, no. 13, January/February/March 2011, will appear in English in Joe Sacco’s new collection Journalism, to be published by Metropolitan Books on June 19. Kushinagar is a comic based on Sacco's travels in Kushinagar, a district in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It's a place of abject poverty yet the people of Kushinagar are animated in their hope of living a life of dignity one day.

More Kushinagar cartoons can be found here.