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<p><strong>From the “heir to R. Crumb and Art Spiegelman” (<em>Economist</em>),
a masterful work of comics journalism about indigenous
North America, resource extraction, and our debt to the
natural world</strong><br>
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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.<br>
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In <em>Paying the Land</em>, 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.<br>
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Against a vast and gorgeous landscape that dwarfs all human
scale, <em>Paying the Land</em> 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
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<p>A <em>LITERARY HUB</em> MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2020 <br>
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A <em>COMICS BEAT</em> MOST ANTICIPATED GRAPHIC NOVEL FOR
SPRING 2020<br>
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"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, <em>The New York Times Book Review<br>
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</em>"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." —<em>The Times Literary
Supplement</em><br>
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"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."—<em>Minneapolis Star
Tribune</em><br>
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"To say that Joe Sacco is the greatest practitioner of
comics journalism working today is an understatement. . . .
<em>Paying the Land</em> may well represent the greatest
work he has ever done." —<em>Comics Journal</em><br>
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