Books by Kevin Sacco

In 2015 artist Kevin Sacco returned to New York City after a period of living in New Jersey. The author of such acclaimed graphic novels as The Pane Story, Joesphine and White Night, re-discovered the wonders, mircales and majesties of the city he had once known as home and to which he was happy to return. Wandering his hometown Sacco captured the rhytms, feel and the sense of wonder that met him at every corner and every park. The drawings in this book reflect on the life he shares with his fellow New Yorkers and captures the essence of the New York state of mind. 

From the creator of the Civil Rights era graphic novel Josephine and the period piece The Plane Story Kevin Sacco brings another look back set in the advertising world of New York. It's a snowy night in the early 1960s and Zeppo Abandando, an advertising copywriter, is searching for his eureka moment for an ad campaign. White Night tells the story of this search, and in the process, Sacco reveals a loving portrait of Zeppo's world-at home, on Madison avenue, and at Harold's Showspot, his favorite bar. Part fiction, part memoir, White Night pays homage to Sacco's real life father, Joe Sacco, telling the story, and through his pitch perfect drawings, Zeppo's search for an aha moment takes on a grander, warmly humanistic meaning.

In his first work since The Plane Story, Kevin Sacco brings us a wordless Civil Rights-era tale of a young boy with a complicated family life who accompanies his family's domestic - Josephine - from his Upper West Side comforts to her neighborhood haunts in Harlem. This journey subtly imbues the boy with a world view as full of blacks, whites and grays as the story's art. At the heart of this narrative is the bond the boy shares with Josephine - until a sinister plot twist casts a dark shadow on their relationship.