[D66] Paying the Land

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  Paying the Land

Joe Sacco

Metropolitan Books

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Metropolitan Books

Henry Holt and Co.

On Sale: 07/07/2020

ISBN: 9781627799034

272 Pages

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*From the “heir to R. Crumb and Art Spiegelman” (/Economist/), a 
masterful work of comics journalism about indigenous North America, 
resource extraction, and our debt to the natural world*

The Dene have lived in the vast Mackenzie River Valley since time 
immemorial, by their account. To the Dene, the land owns them, not the 
other way around, and it is central to their livelihood and very way of 
being. But the subarctic Canadian Northwest Territories are home to 
valuable resources, including oil, gas, and diamonds. With mining came 
jobs and investment, but also road-building, pipelines, and toxic waste, 
which scarred the landscape, and alcohol, drugs, and debt, which 
deformed a way of life.

In /Paying the Land/, Joe Sacco travels the frozen North to reveal a 
people in conflict over the costs and benefits of development. The 
mining boom is only the latest assault on indigenous culture: Sacco 
recounts the shattering impact of a residential school system that aimed 
to “remove the Indian from the child”; the destructive process that 
drove the Dene from the bush into settlements and turned them into wage 
laborers; the government land claims stacked against the Dene Nation; 
and their uphill efforts to revive a wounded culture.

Against a vast and gorgeous landscape that dwarfs all human scale, 
/Paying the Land/ lends an ear to trappers and chiefs, activists and 
priests, to tell a sweeping story about money, dependency, loss, and 
culture—recounted in stunning visual detail by one of the greatest 
cartoonists alive.


      Praise for Paying the Land

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A /LITERARY HUB/ MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2020

A /COMICS BEAT/ MOST ANTICIPATED GRAPHIC NOVEL FOR SPRING 2020

"A tour de force . . . luminous . . . Joe Sacco's large-scale panels 
teem with detail, visual and verbal . . . What begins as an exploration 
of the effects of fracking on Native lands sprawls into a haunted 
history of an entire civilization." —Ed Park, /The New York Times Book 
Review

/"Nuanced, highly sensitive journalism . . . Sacco’s measured artwork 
lets the Dene people speak for themselves, working in tandem with the 
historical and sociopolitical context that he deftly interweaves." —/The 
Times Literary Supplement/

"It has been more than ten years since Joe Sacco, one of our greatest 
living graphic journalists, has produced a full-length work, and the 
wait has been worth it. . . . an immersive exploration that casts its 
net across a broad panoply of topics while still hewing to the granular 
details that make Sacco’s work so rewarding."—/Minneapolis Star Tribune/

"To say that Joe Sacco is the greatest practitioner of comics journalism 
working today is an understatement. . . . /Paying the Land/ may well 
represent the greatest work he has ever done." —/Comics Journal/
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