Gaza and “The Right to Live in Peace”: World War 3 Illustrated #55.

AK Press, 2025. 224pp, $15.00

Founded in 1979 by Seth Tobocman and Peter Kuper as an ongoing anthology of radical comics, “WW3” has been on the job ever since, full of politics and art mixed, with more artists and more young artists, than anywhere else in the comics world. This time, the collective editorial group includes up and coming Palestinian comic artist Mohammad Sabaaneh, and as well, a host of Palestinian contributors.

This time around, the stars shine. “Never Again!..and Again…And Again,” by Joe Sacco and Art Spiegelman, has the famed pair sometimes in Gaza itself, sometimes apparently in Art’s studio in New York, ruminating Genocide (Art calls it “ethnic cleansing” or “genocidish”), the long history of anti-Semitism, the creation of Israel captured in a single act of a comic panel. An imagined sales agent offers Jewish immigrants of 1948 “an apartment without people, for a people without an apartment,” effectively banishing the ghosts of Palestinian children who had lived there.

The strip ends with an apocalypse and the two artists holding banners that spell out “Never Again, for Anyone!” These pages will live for centuries.

But to highlight the famous artists threatens to brush aside the others and the truly global character of this creation, and most notably, the contribution of Arab artists and storytellers themselves. Here, for instance, we find a story by, and an old interview........

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