We at The Stranger are huge fans of Joe Sacco’s fearless comic-book journalism. In locations like Palestine and Sarajevo, Sacco has interviewed the kinds of people—ordinary kids having fun at a dance club, hit men who’ve seen too much—that traditional journalists ignore. His new historical book, The Great War, consists of a single, wordless scroll of paper depicting a panoramic view of the Battle of the Somme on July 1, 1916.

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