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.

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