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He began working for a local publisher writing guidebooks. Returning to his fondness for comics, he wrote a Maltese
Joe Sacco (; born October 2, 1960) is a Maltese-American cartoonist and journalist. He is best known for his
"The Outsider: Joe Sacco's comics journalism,"
''The Nation'' (Dec. 28, 2020).
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 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
.Ben Arnold (August 27, 2004)comics journalism
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, in particular in the books ''Palestine
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'' (1996) and '' Footnotes in Gaza'' (2009), on Israeli–Palestinian relations; and '' Safe Area Goražde'' (2000) and '' The Fixer'' (2003) on the Bosnian War
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. In 2020, Sacco released ''Paying the Land'', published by Henry Holt and Company
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.Steinhauer, Jillian"The Outsider: Joe Sacco's comics journalism,"
''The Nation'' (Dec. 28, 2020).
Biography
Sacco was born inMalta
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on October 2, 1960.Drawn & Quarterly
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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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The Guardian
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''. Retrieved April 26, 2006. At the age of one, he moved with his family to Melbourne, Australia,Read Yourself RAWProfile: 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
University of Oregon
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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 National Notary Association
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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 #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC
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...romance comic
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named ''Imħabba Vera'' ("''True Love''"), one of the first art-comics in the Maltese language
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. "Because Malta has no history of comics, comics weren't considered something for kids," he told ''The Village Voice
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''. "In one case, for example, the girl got pregnant and she went to Holland for an abortion. Malta is a Catholic
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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
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, alternative comics
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magazine called ''Portland Permanent Press'' in Portland, Oregon
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. When the magazine folded fifteen months later, he took a job at ''The Comics Journal
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'' as the staff news writer.Gary Groth (October 4, 2001)Joe Sacco, Frontline Journalist: Why Sacco went to Gorazde
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The Comics Journal
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'' (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'' Fantagraphics Books
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Joe Sacco
. Retrieved April 25, 2006. (a name he took from an overcomplicated children's toy in
Aldous Huxley
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's ''Brave New World
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''), published by ''The Comics Journal''s parent company Fantagraphics Books
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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 Gulf War
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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
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* State of Palestine, a state in Western Asia
* Palestine (region), a geographic region in Western Asia
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'', 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 Palestinian territories
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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 American Book Award
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in 1996 and sold more than 30,000 copies in the UK.Eyeglass in GazaInterview in "
The Guardian
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".
Sacco next travelled to Sarajevo
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and Goražde
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near the end of the Bosnian War
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, 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 ''War's End'' is a journalistic comic about the Bosnian War written by Joe Sacco. It contains two stories; the first, ''Christmas with Karadzic'', about tracking down and meeting the Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić, and the second, ''Soba'', ...
''; the financing for which was aided by his winning of the Guggenheim Fellowship
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in April 2001.Guggenheim Foundation 2001 Fellows PageGuggenheim Foundation (2001) . Retrieved October 7, 2006. ''Safe Area Goražde'' won the
Eisner Award
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for Best Original Graphic Novel in 2001.
He has also contributed short pieces of graphic reportage to a variety of magazines, on subjects ranging from war crimes to blues
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, and was a frequent illustrator of Harvey Pekar's ''American Splendor
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''. In 2005 he wrote and drew two eight-page comics depicting events in Iraq published in ''The Guardian
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''. He also contributed a 16-page piece in April 2007's issue of ''Harper's Magazine
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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
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in November 1956. In June 2012, a book on poverty in the United States
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, ''Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt'', co-written with journalist Chris Hedges, was published. His latest work is ''Paying The Land'' (2020) discussing climate change and the indigenous Dene
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community of Northwest Canada, who, he says, were subject to cultural genocide
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by means of compulsory residential schooling, treaties, and capitalism.
Sacco currently lives in Portland, Oregon
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.
Awards
In addition to his 1996American Book Award
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, and 2001 Guggenheim Fellowship
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, Sacco's Safe Area Goražde brought him a Time magazine
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"Best Comic of 2000" award, followed by 2001 Eisner Award
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for Best Original Graphic Novel, and 2001 Eagle Award for Best Original Graphic Novel, and 2001 Harvey Award
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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
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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.Fantagraphics Books
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*1993–1995: ''Palestine
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* State of Palestine, a state in Western Asia
* Palestine (region), a geographic region in Western Asia
* Palestinian territories, territories occupied by Israel since 1967, namely the West Bank (including East ...
'' #1–9. Fantagraphics Books
*1994: ''Spotlight on the Genius that is Joe Sacco''. Fantagraphics Books
*1998: ''Stories From Bosnia'' #1: ''Soba''. Drawn & Quarterly
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Editor
*1987–1988: ''Centrifugal Bumble-Puppy''. Fantagraphics Books *1987: ''Honk!
''Honk!'' is a musical adaptation of the 1843 Hans Christian Andersen story ''The Ugly Duckling'', incorporating a message of tolerance. The book and lyrics are by Anthony Drewe and music is by George Stiles (of the British songwriting duo S ...
''. Fantagraphics Books
Comics journalism stories
* "The War Crimes Trials," ''Details Detail(s) or The Detail(s) may refer to:
Film and television
* ''Details'' (film), a 2003 Swedish film
* ''The Details'' (film), a 2011 American film
* ''The Detail'', a Canadian television series
* "The Detail" (''The Wire''), a television epis ...
'' (September 1998), pp. 260-265.
* "The Rude Blues," ''Details'' (April 2000), pp. 140-145.
* "Hebron: A Look Inside," ''Time
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'' (March 12, 2001), pp. 40-43.
* "The Underground War in Gaza," ''The New York Times Magazine
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'' (July 6, 2003).
"Complacency Kills,"
'' The Guardian Weekend'' (Feb. 26, 2005), pp. 16–24. * "Down! Up! You're in the Iraqi Army Now", ''
Harper's Magazine
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'' (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''.Fantagraphics Books
Fantagraphics (previously Fantagraphics Books) is an American publisher of alternative comics, classic comic strip anthologies, manga, magazines, graphic novels, and the erotic Eros Comix imprint.
History
Founding
Fantagraphics was found ...
. (expanded edition 2010)
*2001: ''Palestine
__NOTOC__
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* State of Palestine, a state in Western Asia
* Palestine (region), a geographic region in Western Asia
* Palestinian territories, territories occupied by Israel since 1967, namely the West Bank (including East ...
''. 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
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, . Jonathan Cape
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Cape and his business partner Wren Howard set up the publishing house in 1921. They established a reputation ...
,
*2012: ''Journalism
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''. Metropolitan Books
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,
*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 Chris Hedges.Nation Books
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,
See also
*New Journalism
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* Alternative comics
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* ''@earth
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* '' Eye''
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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The Oregonian
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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
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'' (November 10).
* Arnold, Andrew. 2003"Looks Like a Job for 'The Fixer': Joe Sacco's latest work of comix-journalism."
Time.com
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(October 31).
* Baker, Bill. 2003. "Redirected Male: Fields of Gold." ''Sequential Tart
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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 ihere
) * 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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Portland Tribune
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'' (November 28).
* Garelick, Jon. 2001"Orwell with India ink: Joe Sacco's war journalism,"
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Boston Phoenix
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'' (February 23).
* Hajdu, David. 2003"Comics for Grown-Ups,"
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The New York Review of Books
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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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* Heer, Jeet. 2003. "More about the war: Joe Sacco's comics reveal things about conflicts that the news just can't." ''National Post
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* Lorberer, Eric. 2000. "Graphic novels: Safe Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995 by Joe Sacco" [review]. ''Rain Taxi'' 5 (2; Summer): 16
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* Thompson, David. 2003"Eyewitness in Gaza: Joe Sacco's comic-book format provides an unlikely but compelling insight into the Palestinian experience in Palestine."
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Further reading
* *External links
Comics by Sacco2006 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 Sacco
Interviews
Joe Sacco on ''Footnotes in Gaza''
– Interview on the 7th Avenue Project radio show
– Interview by ''
Al Jazeera
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English''Brueghel in Bosnia
Interview in ''
L.A. Weekly
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Interview in ''
Mother Jones
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''.Joe Sacco, Man of the World
Audio interview on mp3 from The Crown Commission.
Interview with Joe Sacco
– interview on ''
Weekend America
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''Interview with Joe Sacco
on bdtheque.com for the release of Footnotes in Gaza.
Eyeglass in Gaza
Interview in "
The Guardian
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".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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