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Paramita Ghosh , Hindustan Times  New Delhi, April 16, 2010
First Published: 17:44 IST(16/4/2010) | Last Updated: 18:51
IST(16/4/2010)  Joe Sacco1. In many ways Footnotes is difficult
to read, there seems to be a relentless documentation of
violence. Was that deliberate? Are you trying to say that the
days of ‘stories’ about Palestine are over and that the only way
one can talk of that struggle is by remembering and recounting
Israel’s role in violence? A: Footnotes is a different sort of
story, an investigation of two specific incidents that took
place in the Gaza Strip during the Suez Crisis when large
numbers of Palestinians were reportedly killed by Israeli
forces. In that regard, I decided to tell the story from
multiple perspectives to show that many people witnessed and
experienced essentially the same thing. Ultimately, I was
writing about massacres, and I had to present as much evidence
as possible.  To make this a "personality driven" book - i