Joe Sacco
- Born 1960-10-02
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 #[nn] (August 2001)](app://issue/627970). His other notable monographs include [Footnotes in Gaza #[nn] (2009)](app://issue/791927), which won a Ridenhour Book Prize. Other notable works include [Safe Area Goražde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-95 #[nn] (June 2000)](app://issue/1536033) and [The Fixer: A Story from Sarajevo #[nn] (October 2003)](app://issue/805818) on the Bosnian War. In 2020, Sacco released [Paying the Land #[nn] (2020)](app://issue/2125161), published by Henry Holt and Company.
Comics
- Prime Cuts — 3 issues
- Lloyd Llewellyn — 1 issue
- Centrifugal Bumble-Puppy — 8 issues
- Suburban High Life — 1 issue
- Weirdo — 1 issue
- Yahoo — 6 issues
- Sexy Stories from the World Religions — 1 issue
- Buzzard — 1 issue
- The New Comics Anthology — 1 issue
- The Holo Brothers — 2 issues
- Drawn & Quarterly — 1 issue
- Palestine — 9 issues
- American Splendor — 1 issue
- Real Stuff — 1 issue
- Spotlight on the Genius That Is Joe Sacco — 1 issue
- Different Beat Comics — 1 issue
- Hands Off! — 1 issue
- Palestine — 2 issues
- Northwest Cartoon Cookery — 1 issue
- The Comics Journal — 2 issues
- War Junkie — 1 issue
- Dark Horse Presents — 7 issues
- American Splendor: Windfall — 1 issue
- The Big Book of Hoaxes — 1 issue
- The Big Book of Thugs — 1 issue
- The Big Book of Scandal — 1 issue
- The Big Book of Losers — 1 issue
- Zero Zero — 3 issues
- American Splendor: On the Job — 1 issue
- The Big Book of the Unexplained — 1 issue
- Weird — 1 issue
- The Big Book of Martyrs — 1 issue
- American Splendor: Music Comics — 1 issue
- American Splendor: Odds and Ends — 1 issue
- Stories from Bosnia: Soba — 1 issue
- The Big Book of Bad — 1 issue
- American Splendor: Transatlantic Comics — 1 issue
- Heart of Empire — 1 issue
- American Splendor: Terminal — 1 issue
- Safe Area Goražde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-95 — 1 issue
- American Splendor: Bedtime Stories — 1 issue
- American Splendor: Portrait of the Author in His Declining Years — 1 issue
- Palestine — 2 issues
- Safe Area Goražde — 2 issues
- The Comics Journal Special Edition — 1 issue
- The Rude Blues — 1 issue
- Dark Horse Maverick: Happy Endings — 1 issue
- Notes from a Defeatist — 1 issue
- Notes from a Defeatist — 1 issue
- The Fixer: A Story from Sarajevo — 1 issue
- The New Smithsonian Book of Comic-Book Stories: From Crumb to Clowes — 1 issue
- McSweeney's Quarterly Concern — 1 issue
- Best of American Splendor — 1 issue
- War's End: Profiles from Bosnia 1995-1996 — 1 issue
- The Best American Nonrequired Reading — 1 issue
- The Guardian Weekend Magazine — 1 issue
- But I Like It — 1 issue
- The Best American Comics — 6 issues
- Safe Area Goražde — 1 issue
- Palestine: The Special Edition — 1 issue
- I Live Here — 1 issue
- An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons and True Stories — 1 issue
- Footnotes in Gaza — 1 issue
- The Fixer and Other Stories — 1 issue
- FBI•Mini — 1 issue
- Safe Area Goražde: The Special Edition — 1 issue
- Dotter of Her Father's Eyes — 1 issue
- Journalism — 1 issue
- Bumf — 1 issue
- Bumf — 1 issue
- Drawn & Quarterly: Twenty-Five Years of Contemporary Cartooning, Comics, and Graphic Novels — 1 issue
- We Told You So: Comics as Art — 1 issue
- Hostage — 1 issue
- Paying the Land — 1 issue
- War on Gaza — 1 issue
- The Once and Future Riot — 1 issue