{"product_id":"the-once-and-future-riot-hardcover","title":"The Once and Future Riot - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom \"our greatest living comics journalist\" (\u003cem\u003eMinneapolis Star Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e), a revelatory investigation of deadly sectarian riots in Uttar Pradesh, India, that explores the mechanics, dynamics, mythologies, uses, and abuses of political violence everywhere \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCompared to other episodes of lethal Indian communal violence, the clashes in Uttar Pradesh in 2013, the Muzaffarnagar Riot, were a relatively small-scale affair – some scores of people were killed and several tens of thousands displaced. It had happened before and will probably happen again: Hindus and Muslims, armed with guns and swords, riled up by vitriolic rhetoric and a tangle of accusations, turn on one another. The truth fragments along religious lines, both in the lead-up to the rampage and in its bloody aftermath. In \u003cem\u003eThe Once and Future Riot\u003c\/em\u003e, Joe Sacco immerses himself in Uttar Pradesh, speaking to government officials, political leaders, village chiefs, and especially the victims, who were mostly landless peasants, in a quest to understand this riot as an archetype of political violence. In the process, he probes the role of savagery in a democracy; the power of crowds, rather than leaders, to influence the course of events; the collision of competing narratives; and the accounts that perpetrators construct to explain away their participation in bloodshed. Hailed as \"the heir to R. Crumb and Art Spiegelman\" (\u003cem\u003eEconomist\u003c\/em\u003e), Sacco has chronicled the urgent histories that define the world around us, from the Great War to Gaza. Here, he turns his masterful visual reportage to a story that is specific to India but with implications and resonance for all precarious multiethnic, multiracial societies everywhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e The Once and Future Riot\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardcover\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Joe Sacco\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781250880260\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 14, 2025\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePage Count:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 7.49\" x 10.09\" x 0.69\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67672137990509,"sku":"9781250880260","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0955\/8638\/6285\/files\/WQN4tKCzd9781250880260.webp?v=1791957175","url":"https:\/\/oddvolumecomics.com\/products\/the-once-and-future-riot-hardcover","provider":"Odd Volume Comics","version":"1.0","type":"link"}