Joe Sacco (; born October 2, 1960) is a Maltese-American cartoonist and journalist. He is best known for his comics journalism, in particular in the books '' Palestine'' (1996) and '' Footnotes in Gaza'' (2009), on Israeli–Palestinian relations; and '' Safe Area Goražde'' (2000) and '' The Fixer'' (2003) on the

Bosnian War The Bosnian War ( sh, Rat u Bosni i Hercegovini / Рат у Босни и Херцеговини) was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995. The war is commonly seen as having started ...

. In 2020, Sacco released ''Paying the Land'', published by

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.Steinhauer, Jillian
"The Outsider: Joe Sacco's comics journalism,"
''The Nation'' (Dec. 28, 2020).

Biography

Sacco was born in

Malta Malta ( , , ), officially the Republic of Malta ( mt, Repubblika ta' Malta ), is an island country in the Mediterranean Sea. It consists of an archipelago, between Italy and Libya, and is often considered a part of Southern Europe. It lies ...

on October 2, 1960.

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(2004)
Joe Sacco: Biography
Retrieved April 24, 2006. His father Leonard was an engineer and his mother Carmen was a teacher.Duncan Campbell (October 23, 2003)

''

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''. Retrieved April 26, 2006. At the age of one, he moved with his family to Melbourne, Australia,Read Yourself RAW
Profile: Joe Sacco
. Retrieved April 25, 2006. where he spent his childhood until 1972, when they moved to Los Angeles. He began his journalism career working on the Sunset High School newspaper in Beaverton, Oregon. While journalism was his primary focus, this was also the period of time in which he developed his penchant for humor and satire. He graduated from Sunset High in 1978. Sacco earned his BA in journalism from the

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in 1981 in three years. He was greatly frustrated with the journalist work that he found at the time, later saying, " couldn't finda job writing very hard-hitting, interesting pieces that would really make some sort of difference." After being briefly employed by the journal of the

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, a job which he found "exceedingly, exceedingly boring," and several factories, he returned to Malta, his journalist hopes forgotten. "...I sort of decided to forget it and just go the other route, which was basically take my hobby, which has been cartooning, and see if I could make a living out of that," he later told the BBC.Ben Arnold (August 27, 2004)
Telephone interview with Joe Sacco
(

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file, source
Interview with Joe Sacco
. BBC. Retrieved April 26, 2006. He began working for a local publisher writing guidebooks. Returning to his fondness for comics, he wrote a Maltese romance comic named ''Imħabba Vera'' ("''True Love''"), one of the first art-comics in the

Maltese language Maltese ( mt, Malti, links=no, also ''L-Ilsien Malti'' or '), is a Semitic language derived from late medieval Sicilian Arabic with Romance superstrata spoken by the Maltese people. It is the national language of Malta and the only offic ...

. "Because Malta has no history of comics, comics weren't considered something for kids," he told ''

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''. "In one case, for example, the girl got pregnant and she went to Holland for an abortion. Malta is a

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country where, at the time, not even divorce was allowed. It was unusual, but it's not like anyone raised a stink about it, because they had no way of judging whether this was appropriate material for comics or not."Hillary Chute (July 19, 2005)
Stand Up Comics
''The Village Voice''. Retrieved April 26, 2006. Eventually returning to the United States, by 1985 Sacco had founded a

satirical Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of shaming or ...

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magazine called ''Portland Permanent Press'' in

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. When the magazine folded fifteen months later, he took a job at ''

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'' as the staff news writer.Gary Groth (October 4, 2001)
Joe Sacco, Frontline Journalist: Why Sacco went to Gorazde
''

'' (a magazine owned and operated by Fantagraphics Books). Retrieved April 26, 2006. This job provided the opportunity for him to create and edit another satire: the comics anthology ''Centrifugal Bumble-Puppy''

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Joe Sacco
. Retrieved April 25, 2006. (a name he took from an overcomplicated children's toy in

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's ''

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''), published by ''The Comics Journal''s parent company

. But Sacco was more interested in traveling. In 1988, he left the U.S. again to travel across Europe, a trip which he chronicled in his autobiographical comic ''Yahoo'' (also published by Fantagraphics). The trip led him towards the ongoing

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(his obsession with which he talks about in ''Yahoo'' #2), and in 1991 he found himself nearby to research the work he would eventually publish as '' Palestine'', a documentary graphic novel, which gather testimonies of survivors of war and trauma. The Gulf War segment of ''Yahoo'' drew Sacco into a study of Middle Eastern politics, and he traveled to Israel and the

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to research his first long work. ''Palestine'' was a collection of short and long pieces, some depicting Sacco's travels and encounters with Palestinians (and several Israelis), and some dramatizing the stories he was told. It was serialized as a comic book from 1993 to 1995 and then published in several collections, the first of which won an

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in 1996 and sold more than 30,000 copies in the UK.Eyeglass in Gaza
Interview in "

". Sacco next travelled to

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and

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near the end of the

, and produced a series of reports in the same style as ''Palestine'': the comics '' Safe Area Goražde'', '' The Fixer'', and the stories collected in '' War's End''; the financing for which was aided by his winning of the

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the art ...

in April 2001.Guggenheim Foundation 2001 Fellows Page
Guggenheim Foundation (2001) . Retrieved October 7, 2006. ''Safe Area Goražde'' won the

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for Best Original Graphic Novel in 2001. Joe Sacco Iraq

He has also contributed short pieces of graphic reportage to a variety of magazines, on subjects ranging from war crimes to

blues Blues is a music genre and musical form which originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the ...

, and was a frequent illustrator of Harvey Pekar's '' American Splendor''. In 2005 he wrote and drew two eight-page comics depicting events in Iraq published in ''

''. He also contributed a 16-page piece in April 2007's issue of ''

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'', entitled "Down! Up! You're in the Iraqi Army Now". In 2009, his '' Footnotes in Gaza'' was published, which investigates two forgotten massacres that took place in

Khan Younis Khan Yunis ( ar, خان يونس, also spelled Khan Younis or Khan Yunus; translation: ''Caravansary fJonah'') is a city in the southern Gaza Strip. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Khan Yunis had a population of 142 ...

and Rafah in November 1956. In June 2012, a book on

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, ''Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt'', co-written with journalist

Chris Hedges Christopher Lynn Hedges (born September 18, 1956) is an American journalist, Presbyterian minister, author, and commentator. In his early career, Hedges worked as a freelance war correspondent in Central America for '' The Christian Science M ...

, was published. His latest work is ''Paying The Land'' (2020) discussing climate change and the indigenous

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community of Northwest Canada, who, he says, were subject to cultural genocide by means of compulsory residential schooling, treaties, and capitalism. Sacco currently lives in

Awards

In addition to his 1996

, and 2001

, Sacco's Safe Area Goražde brought him a

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"Best Comic of 2000" award, followed by 2001

for Best Original Graphic Novel, and 2001 Eagle Award for Best Original Graphic Novel, and 2001

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nomination for Best Writer and Best Graphic Album of Original Work. His ''Footnotes in Gaza'' was nominated for the 2009

Los Angeles Times Book Prize Since 1980, the ''Los Angeles Times'' has awarded a set of annual book prizes. The Prizes currently have nine categories: biography, current interest, fiction, first fiction (the Art Seidenbaum Award added in 1991), history, mystery/thriller ...

Graphic Novel award. Sacco was awarded the 2010 Ridenhour Book Prize for ''Footnotes in Gaza''. He was award the 2012 Oregon Book Award for ''Footnotes in Gaza'' and 2014 Oregon Book Award Finalist for ''Journalism''.

Bibliography

Comic books

Solo

*1988–1992: ''Yahoo'' #1–6.

*1993–1995: '' Palestine'' #1–9. Fantagraphics Books *1994: ''Spotlight on the Genius that is Joe Sacco''. Fantagraphics Books *1998: ''Stories From Bosnia'' #1: ''Soba''.

Editor

*1987–1988: ''Centrifugal Bumble-Puppy''. Fantagraphics Books *1987: '' Honk!''. Fantagraphics Books

Comics journalism stories

* "The War Crimes Trials," '' Details'' (September 1998), pp. 260-265. * "The Rude Blues," ''Details'' (April 2000), pp. 140-145. * "Hebron: A Look Inside," ''

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'' (March 12, 2001), pp. 40-43. * "The Underground War in Gaza," ''

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'' (July 6, 2003).
"Complacency Kills,"
''

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'' (Feb. 26, 2005), pp. 16–24. * "Down! Up! You're in the Iraqi Army Now", ''

'' (April 2007), 16 pp.

Books

Solo

*1993: ''Palestine: A Nation Occupied''. Fantagraphics Books. (collects ''Palestine'' #1–5) *1996: ''Palestine: In the Gaza Strip''. Fantagraphics Books. (collects ''Palestine'' #4–9) *1997: ''War Junkie''. Fantagraphics Books. . *2000: '' Safe Area Goražde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992–1995''.

. (expanded edition 2010) *2001: '' Palestine''. Fantagraphics Books. (collects ''Palestine'' #1–9) (expanded edition in 2007) *2003: '' The Fixer: A Story from Sarajevo''. Drawn & Quarterly Books. *2003: '' Notes from a Defeatist''. Fantagraphics Books. (collects ''Yahoo'' #1–6) *2005: '' War's End: Profiles from Bosnia 1995–96''. Drawn & Quarterly. *2006: '' But I Like It''. Fantagraphics Books. *2009: '' Footnotes in Gaza''. Metropolitan Books, .

Jonathan Cape Jonathan Cape is a London publishing firm founded in 1921 by Herbert Jonathan Cape, who was head of the firm until his death in 1960. Cape and his business partner Wren Howard set up the publishing house in 1921. They established a reputation ...

, *2012: ''

Journalism Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the " news of the day" and that informs society to at least some degree. The word, a noun, applies to the occupation (p ...

''. Metropolitan Books, *2013: ''The Great War: July 1, 1916: The First Day of the Battle of the Somme''. W. W. Norton & Company. *2014: ''Bumf Vol. 1: I Buggered the Kaiser''. Fantagraphics Books. *2020: ''Paying the Land''. Henry Holt and Co.

As illustrator

*2002: ''From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: A Short, Illustrated History of Labor in the United States'' with Priscilla Murolo and A. B. Chitty. *2012: '' Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt'' with

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References

Notes

Sources

* ———. 2003
"The thin black line: Cartoonist Joe Sacco, who illustrated the Sarajevo war zone in 'The Fixer,' will be in town to discuss his craft."
''

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'' (November 14). * Adams, James. 2003. “Conflict's cartoonist: It bothers Joe Sacco that people are suffering in Gaza or Gorazde, and he uses his singular comic-book style to make sure it bothers other people too." ''

Toronto Globe and Mail ''The Globe and Mail'' is a Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in western and central Canada. With a weekly readership of approximately 2 million in 2015, it is Canada's most widely read newspaper on weekdays and Saturdays, although it ...

'' (November 10). * Arnold, Andrew. 2003
"Looks Like a Job for 'The Fixer': Joe Sacco's latest work of comix-journalism."
Time.com (October 31). * Baker, Bill. 2003. "Redirected Male: Fields of Gold." ''

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'' (April). * Baker, Bill. 2001
"War Tales: 5 Minutes with Joe Sacco on Safe Area Gorazde."
WizardWorld.com (January 2). * Baker, Bill. 2000
"Comics Journalism 101: 5 Minutes with Joe Sacco."
WizardWorld.com (December 28): * Baker, Bill. 2000
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/nowiki> Wartime: 5 Minutes with Joe Sacco on Palestine." WizardWorld.com (December 27): * Dodge, Chris. 2000. "Art behind the lines: How a comic book can reveal the truth of war." ''Utne Reader'' (May-June): 94-95 * Doughty, Dick. 1996. "Palestine with attitude". ''Journal of Palestine Studies'' * Gavin Edwards (writer), Edwards, Gavin. 2000. "The art of war." ''Spin (magazine), Spin'' (June) * Farah, Christopher. 2003
"Safe area America: Graphic novelist Joe Sacco goes back to Sarajevo with his powerful new book 'The Fixer' -- and talks about why the entire U.S. population should be tried for war crimes."
'' Salon.com, Salon'' (December 5) * Garfield, Bob. 2003
"Sacco's New War."

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's '' On the Media'' (November 14). (Also: a transcript of the interview i
here
) * Gallivan, Joseph. 2003
"Serious ink: Cartoonist Joe Sacco doesn't shy from conflict; in fact, he wants to tell all about it."
''

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'' (November 28). * Garelick, Jon. 2001
"Orwell with India ink: Joe Sacco's war journalism,"
''

Boston Phoenix ''The Phoenix'' (stylized as ''The Phœnix'') was the name of several alternative weekly periodicals published in the United States of America by Phoenix Media/Communications Group of Boston, Massachusetts, including the ''Portland Phoenix'' and ...

'' (February 23). *

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. 2003
"Comics for Grown-Ups,"
''

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'' 50 (13; August 14). * Harvey, R. C. 2001
"Opus 60: Tittles and Jots: A Quick Look at What's Still on the Stands and Some Cartoonist Reportage."
''Rants & Raves'' (May 23). * Hedges, Chris. 1997. "A cartoonist sketches outline of Bosnia's pain". ''

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'' (June 1) * Heer, Jeet. 2003. "More about the war: Joe Sacco's comics reveal things about conflicts that the news just can't." ''

National Post The ''National Post'' is a Canadian English-language broadsheet newspaper available in several cities in central and western Canada. The paper is the flagship publication of Postmedia Network and is published Mondays through Saturdays, with ...

'' (October 9) * Hitchens, Christopher. 2000. "The Draftsman's Contract"

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], ''Los Angeles Times'' (June 11) * Iannelli, E. J. 2000. "Battle lines: Joe Sacco's illustrated journalism puts a face on Bosnia." ''Resonance'' (26; Summer): 10-11 * Ken Kurson, Kurson, Ken. 1996? "The good word." '' Might (magazine), Might'' magazine: (3) * Lorberer, Eric. 2000. "Graphic novels: Safe Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995 by Joe Sacco" eview ''

Rain Taxi ''Rain Taxi'' is a Minneapolis-based book review and literary organization. In addition to publishing its quarterly print edition, ''Rain Taxi'' maintains an online edition with distinct content, sponsors the Twin Cities Book Festival, hosts read ...

'' 5 (2; Summer): 16 * Lydon, Christopher. 2001. "Cartoon Journalist Joe Sacco nterview

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's '' The Connection'' (April 19) * Mautner, Christopher. 2000. "'Safe Area Gorazde': Cartoonish art draws compelling story of war's horrors". ''

The Patriot-News ''The Patriot-News'' is the largest newspaper serving the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, metropolitan area. In 2005, the newspaper was ranked in the top 100 in daily and Sunday circulation in the United States. It has been owned by Advance Publica ...

'' (May 21) * McKenna, Kristine. 2004
"Brueghel in Bosnia: Kristine McKenna talks with graphic journalist Joe Sacco."
''

LA Weekly ''LA Weekly'' is a free weekly alternative newspaper in Los Angeles, California. It was founded in 1978 by Jay Levin, who served as president and editor until 1991. Voice Media Group sold the paper in late 2017 to Semanal Media LLC, whose par ...

'' (January 2–8). * Murray, Charles Shaar. 2003
"The graphic truth about Palestinian existence,"
''

The Independent ''The Independent'' is a British online newspaper. It was established in 1986 as a national morning printed paper. Nicknamed the ''Indy'', it began as a broadsheet and changed to tabloid format in 2003. The last printed edition was publish ...

'' (February 4). * Nevins, Mark. 2002. "Drawing From Life: An Interview with Joe Sacco." ''

International Journal of Comic Art The ''International Journal of Comic Art'' is a journal about comics art, published twice a year. It was established in 1999 by John Lent (Temple University), who is also the editor-in-chief. The journal is independently published and does not m ...

'' 4 (2; Fall): 1-52 * Phipps, Keith. 2000
"Joe Sacco, Safe Area Gorazde: The War In Eastern Bosnia."
'' The A.V. Club''. * Reid, Calvin. 2003. "Joe Sacco, Comics Journalist." ''

Publishers Weekly ''Publishers Weekly'' (''PW'') is an American weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers, and literary agents. Published continuously since 1872, it has carried the tagline, "The International News Magazine of ...

'' (November 24) * Rhode, Michael. 2000. "Sequential Reportage" etter ''

'' (221; March) *

Said, Edward Edward Wadie Said (; , ; 1 November 1935 – 24 September 2003) was a Palestinian-American professor of literature at Columbia University, a public intellectual, and a founder of the academic field of postcolonial studies.Robert Young, ''Whit ...

. 2002
"Heroes and villains: As a child, Edward Said would marvel at the adventures in comic books. Joe Sacco's Palestine took him back to that time - and to the heart of the Middle East conflict."
''

'' (December 21). * Spurgeon, Tom. 2000. "Drawing enemy lines: Safe Area Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia, 1992-95". ''

'' (227; September): 5-6 * Stein, Joel. 2000. "Joe Sacco's Safe Area Gorazde is a comic-book look at a horrible war." ''

'' (May 1): 72 * Thompson, David. 2003
"Eyewitness in Gaza: Joe Sacco's comic-book format provides an unlikely but compelling insight into the Palestinian experience in Palestine."
''

The Observer ''The Observer'' is a British newspaper published on Sundays. It is a sister paper to ''The Guardian'' and '' The Guardian Weekly'', whose parent company Guardian Media Group Limited acquired it in 1993. First published in 1791, it is the ...

'' (January 5). * Totilo, Stephen. 2000. "Stuff we like: ''Safe Area Gorazde''." ''

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'' (May) * True, Everett. 2000. "No comic relief: It might be in cartoon form but Joe Sacco's account of life in wartorn Bosnia is not a laughing matter." ''

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'' (June): 21 * Vaillant, John. 1998. "War 'toons. Joe Sacco: front-line correspondence, with pens and brushes." ''

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'' (November): 58

External links

Comics by Sacco
2006 report on military action in Iraq
''The Guardian''
2005 report on military action in Iraq
''The Guardian''
On Satire – a response
to the ''Charlie Hebdo'' attacks (January 2015), ''The Guardian'' Biographies * *
Fantagraphics Books: Joe SaccoHarpers magazine pieceAn Evening With Joe Sacco in Los Angeles
Interviews
Joe Sacco on ''Footnotes in Gaza''
– Interview on the 7th Avenue Project radio show

– Interview by ''

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English''
Brueghel in Bosnia
Interview in '' L.A. Weekly''.
The Art Of War
Interview in '' Mother Jones''.
Joe Sacco, Man of the World
Audio interview on mp3 from The Crown Commission.
Interview with Joe Sacco
– interview on '' Weekend America''
Interview with Joe Sacco
on bdtheque.com for the release of Footnotes in Gaza.
Eyeglass in Gaza
Interview in "

".
Joe Sacco in conversation with Hillary Chute
– Interview in '' The Believer''
Joe Sacco on C-SPAN's Book TV

Joe Sacco: Presentation and interview from the 2002 UF Comics Conference
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Biography

Awards

Bibliography

Comic books

Solo

Editor

Comics journalism stories

Books

Solo

As illustrator

See also

References

Notes

Sources

Further reading

External links