Joe Sacco is a Maltese-American cartoonist and journalist.
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12 Facts About Joe Sacco
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Joe Sacco is best known for his comics journalism, in particular in the books Palestine and Footnotes in Gaza (2009), on Israeli–Palestinian relations; and Safe Area Gorazde (2000) and The Fixer (2003) on the Bosnian War.
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In 2020, Joe Sacco released Paying the Land, published by Henry Holt and Company.
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Joe Sacco's father Leonard was an engineer and his mother Carmen was a teacher.
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Joe Sacco began his journalism career working on the Sunset High School newspaper in Beaverton, Oregon.
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Joe Sacco earned his BA in journalism from the University of Oregon in 1981 in three years.
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Joe Sacco was greatly frustrated with the journalist work that he found at the time, later saying, "[I couldn't find] a job writing very hard-hitting, interesting pieces that would really make some sort of difference.
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Joe Sacco began working for a local publisher writing guidebooks.
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Joe Sacco next travelled to Sarajevo and Gorazde near the end of the Bosnian War, and produced a series of reports in the same style as Palestine: the comics Safe Area Gorazde, The Fixer, and the stories collected in War's End; the financing for which was aided by his winning of the Guggenheim Fellowship in April 2001.
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Joe Sacco has contributed short pieces of graphic reportage to a variety of magazines, on subjects ranging from war crimes to blues, and was a frequent illustrator of Harvey Pekar's American Splendor.
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Joe Sacco was awarded the 2010 Ridenhour Book Prize for Footnotes in Gaza.
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