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Joe Sacco

(1960) Comics Artist Malta

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Joe Sacco is a comics artist from Malta, best known for Palestine.

Quick Facts About Joe Sacco

Born: October 2, 1960
Nationality: Malta
Profession: Comics Artist
Notable works: Palestine
Known for: Palestine, Safe Area Goražde, Footnotes in Gaza, The Fixer: A Story from Sarajevo., Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt

About Joe Sacco

Joe Sacco is a Maltese-American cartoonist and journalist. He is credited as the first artist to practice rigorous, investigative journalism using the comics form, also referred to as comics journalism. His work documenting Palestinian life in Gaza and the West Bank was awarded the National Book Award in 1996 and was compiled in the graphic narrative Palestine (2001). His other notable monographs include Footnotes in Gaza (2009) which won a Ridenhour Book Prize, Safe Area Goražde (2000) and The Fixer (2003) on the Bosnian War, Paying the Land (2020), The War on Gaza (2024), and The Once and Future Riot (2025).

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Geschwister-Scholl-Preis American Book Awards Eisner Award Guggenheim Fellowship Adamson Awards Prix France Info Prix Tournesol Eisner Award for Best Writer/Artist

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Will Eisner Hall of Fame

Quotes by Joe Sacco

I don't like just traveling in for a short time. I've done that before, because sometimes you work for magazines and they…

Because

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“The journalist must strive to find out what is going on and tell it, not neuter the truth in the name of…

Balance

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I don't often go to a place just to check out all the cultural sites of a city.

Check

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I'd rather go to a place and spend a couple of months, get to know it, get to know the people.

Couple

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“Make no mistake, everywhere you go, not just in Marvel Comics, there's parallel universes...Here? On the surface streets: traffic, couples in love,…

Behind closed doors

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Don't let your excuses stand in the way of achieving your dreams

Achieve

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I try to ask visual questions. I'll ask what someone was wearing, if that seems relevant. If possible, I'll walk over the…

Ask

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“A boy standing in the rain, and what is he thinking?”

Rain

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I'm not a good tourist, I don't like tourism.

Good

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What is it you want? My reply, I want what I have.

Want

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When I went to Bosnia, I was there to tell someone else's story and I was more methodical.

Bosnia

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“What becomes of someone who thinks he has all the power... and what becomes of someone who believes he has none?”

Power

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Nothing is quite as satisfying and exhausting as teaching.

Education

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I think I'm generally a good listener anyway.

Anyway

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There's probably one more story about Bosnia that I'd like to do, because I spent a fair amount of time on the…

About

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My guide had a copy of Palestine on my last trip to Gaza. He'd bring it out and show people what I…

Bring

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Want to be a better leader? Meditate in the morning and prepare yourself for the day ahead.

Leader

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I'd much rather hang out in a cafe. That's where things are really happening.

Cafe

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And, in some ways I like traveling, in other ways I'm sort of fed up by the whole notion.

Fed

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With comics you can put interesting and solid information in a format that's pretty palatable.

Comics

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Be happy with who you are, where you are, for this is the way.

Happiness

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I meditate not to escape the world but instead to be completely present.

World

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It became clear to me that I had to push it toward a more representational way of drawing.

Became

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Oh, it's essential. I mean, you have to - if I'm writing about the Middle East, I have to go there, and…

About

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When I was there, something clicked in my head; I found myself interviewing people, searching out facts and figures. Later on I…

Became

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