New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2002.). SIGNED first edition - Wordless but powerful graphic novel by this award-winning cartoon journalist and illustrator. "A moving pictorial journey through an island forest to another island on the far side of the ocean, where the secrets of a young girl's past and the secrets of an unknown future await." Introduction by Joe Sacco who notes that this is a story "of the opposing life-affirming and life-crushing forces that rage wherever people live on our planet. Set against Blood Song's themes of regeneration, rebirth, and resistance is the brute power of armies and police forces that do the bidding of vested interests." A wordless story told only in pictures mostly in blues and blacks. SIGNED on the title page. Basis for the 2021 film made in Thailand. Unpaginated [304 pp]. ISBN: 0-15600884X.