Published in print at the tail end of 2024 but added to online through the year, anthology/website Cartoonists for Palestine was undoubtedly one of the year’s most important comics projects. And yet somehow we failed to give it the attention it was due last year. Edited by Yazan al-Saadi, Tracy Chahwan, Shay Mirk and Andy Warner (some names there may be familiar from our recent review of Lebanon is Burning and Other Dispatches) this 250-page anthology with work from around 60 creators is available in physical format by Crucial Comix but is also available to read or download for free online here.

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Ultimately this is barely even scratching the surface of what is covered in Cartoonists for Palestine. And, honestly, this is barely even a review. Instead it’s a plea to share this powerfully communicative comic and, though this is an international effort, also to share the stories of any Palestinians who may have created work in any field of the arts bringing the horrors of these last months of genocide to wider audiences. Cartoonists for Palestine is a vital social record which we will be adding to our nascent, upcoming (and very much work-in-progress) Palestine comics resource list in due course.