NationalInterest: Publisher ban on Sacco’s Muzaffarnagar riot comic a craven joke on India’s freedoms

Joe Sacco’s true focus is in showing how little local disputes led to riots in Muzaffarnagar, sort of leaderless and initially politics-free as the crowds took over. Politics and ideology wade into this opening. For all the global fame he has earned for his unique brand of ‘comics journalism’ Malta-born American Joe Sacco checked one more box on his overloaded CV when Penguin Random House India pulled his latest The Once and Future Riot. Watch this week’s #NationalInterest with ThePrint Editor-In-Chief Shekhar Gupta.----more----Read this week's National Interest here: https://theprint.in/national-interest/publisher-ban-on-saccos-brilliant-muzaffarnagar-riot-comic-is-a-cynical-joke-on-indias-freedoms/2970939/----more----Read Himanshi Aggarwal's article here here: https://theprint.in/feature/hindu-nationalism-inflammatory-penguin-joe-sacco/2961314/