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Joe Sacco | |
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 Sacco in 2005 | |
| Born | October 2, 1960 Kirkop, Crown Colony of Malta |
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| Education | Sunset High School University of Oregon (BA) |
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| Notable awards | for and the Ridenhour Book Prize for (2009) |
Joe Sacco (/ˈsækoʊ/; born October 2, 1960) 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 groundbreaking work documenting Palestinian life in the Occupied Territories was awarded the National Book Award in 1996 and was compiled in the graphic narrative Palestine (2001). [1] His other notable monographs include Footnotes in Gaza (2009) which won a Ridenhour Book Prize.[1] Other notable works include Safe Area Goražde (2000) and The Fixer (2003) on the Bosnian War. In 2020, Sacco released Paying the Land, published by Henry Holt and Company.[2]
- ^ a b "An Interview with Joe Sacco". Issuu. Retrieved January 20, 2025.
- ^ Steinhauer, Jillian. "The Outsider: Joe Sacco's comics journalism," Archived January 26, 2021, at the Wayback Machine The Nation (Dec. 28, 2020).