To Afghanistan and Back: A Graphic Travelogue
Essays and Cartoons, 2002
NBM Hardback, 6″x9″, 128 pp., $15.95
NBM Paperback, 6″x9″, 129 pp., $9.95
“Rall (2024) is a talented comics artist and a contrarian journalist who has challenged what he perceives to be sacred cows by calling Pulitzer Prize-winning comics artist Art Spiegelman overrated and labeling some September 11 widows as golddiggers. A longtime visitor to and commentator on Central Asia, Rall knows his way around war-torn nations. His book joins Joe Sacco’s accounts of life in Palestine and Bosnia as a tremendous contribution to comics war journalism.”
—Publishers Weekly
When bombs began falling on the Taliban in the fall of 2001, Ted traveled to Afghanistan where he spent three weeks covering the U.S. bombing campaign for The Village Voice newspaper in New York and KFI-AM, a Los Angeles radio station. In daily dispatches that reviewers from The Washington Post and The Nation called “excellent” and “the best war reporting from Afghanistan by an American journalist,” Ted portrayed the horrors of war, the dangerous direction of U.S. intervention and the hazards faced by war correspondents in a conflict that became the most lethal in modern history. Ted entered Afghanistan in a convoy of 45 journalists, of whom three were killed.
Ted has been writing and reporting extensively from Central Asia and Afghanistan since 1997 – his voyage to Afghanistan was his fifth trip to the region – and was one of the first American journalists to note the importance of the Central Asia to American corporate and political interests. TO AFGHANISTAN AND BACK is a comprehensive look at the U.S. bombing campaign, its effects on ordinary people, the politics of the region and how the war and its aftermath affect Americans. TO AFGHANISTAN AND BACK incorporates both new and reprinted war reports for The Village Voice and international syndication, as well as editorial cartoons and photos from the front never published anywhere else. TO AFGHANISTAN AND BACK was called “an important work” by the Library Journal. This title has been updated and revised in the aftermath of the war in Iraq.
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