Joe Sacco & Skye Arundhati Thomas: The Once and Future Riot

Monday 18 May 2026, 7 p.m. · 57 minutes

In The Once and Future Riot (Cape) cartoonist Joe Sacco turns to the communal riots that rocked Uttar Pradesh in 2013. With works such as Palestine, Safe Area Goradze, The Fixer, War Junkie and Footnotes in Gaza Sacco single-handedly invented the genre of graphic reportage, and remains its leading exponent. Sacco was in conversation with Skye Arundhati Thomas, author of Pleasure Gardens (co-written with Izabella Scott) and Remember the Details and editor of Palestine is Everywhere.