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{{short description|Maltese–American cartoonist (born 1960)}}
{{for|the NHL coach and former player|Joe Sacco (ice hockey)}}
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{{Infobox writer
| name         = Joe Sacco
| image        = Joe Sacco.jpg
| caption      = Sacco in 2005
| birth_date   = {{birth date and age|1960|10|02}}
| birth_place  = [[Kirkop]], [[Crown Colony of Malta]] 
| occupation   = {{hlist|[[Cartoonist]]|[[Journalist]]|[[Author]]}}
| education    = [[Sunset High School (Beaverton, Oregon)|Sunset High School]]<br/>[[University of Oregon]] {{small|([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])}}
| nationality  = {{hlist|[[Maltese people|Maltese]]|[[Americans|American]]}} 
| genre        = {{ubl |[[Comics journalism]]|[[Non-fiction comics]]|[[New Journalism]]}}
| notableworks = {{ubl|style=font-style:italic; |[[Palestine (comics)|Palestine]] |[[Safe Area Goražde]] |[[Footnotes in Gaza]]}}
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'''Joe Sacco''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|s|æ|k|oʊ}}; born October 2, 1960) is a Maltese-American cartoonist and journalist. He is best known for his [[comics journalism]], in particular in the books ''[[Palestine (graphic novel)|Palestine]]'' (1996) and ''[[Footnotes in Gaza]]'' (2009), on [[Israeli–Palestinian conflict|Israeli–Palestinian relations]]; and ''[[Safe Area Goražde]]'' (2000) and ''[[The Fixer (comics)|The Fixer]]'' (2003) on the [[Bosnian War]]. In 2020, Sacco released ''{{visible anchor|Paying the Land}}'', published by [[Henry Holt and Company]].<ref name=Steinhauser>Steinhauer, Jillian. [https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/joe-sacco-paying-land-review/ "The Outsider: Joe Sacco's comics journalism,"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126004857/https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/joe-sacco-paying-land-review/ |date=January 26, 2021 }} ''The Nation'' (Dec. 28, 2020).</ref>

==Biography==
Sacco was born in [[Crown Colony of Malta|Malta]]<ref name=Steinhauser /> on October 2, 1960.<ref name="drawnquarter">[[Drawn & Quarterly]] (2004). [http://www.drawnandquarterly.com/artBio.php?artist=a3dff7dd55575b Joe Sacco: Biography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140621152836/http://www.drawnandquarterly.com/artBio.php?artist=a3dff7dd55575b |date=June 21, 2014 }}. Retrieved April 24, 2006.</ref><ref>Randy Duncan and Matthew J. Smith (eds.), ''Icons of the American Comic Book'', Vol. 1, ABC-CLIO, 2013, p. 638</ref> His father Leonard was an engineer and his mother Carmen was a teacher.<ref name="guardian">Duncan Campbell (October 23, 2003). [https://www.theguardian.com/g2/story/0,3604,1068677,00.html 'I do comics, not graphic novels']. ''[[The Guardian]]''. Retrieved April 26, 2006.</ref> At the age of one, he moved with his family to Melbourne, Australia,<ref name="readyourselfraw">Read Yourself RAW. [http://www.readyourselfraw.com/profiles/sacco/profile_sacco.htm Profile: Joe Sacco] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060414200233/http://www.readyourselfraw.com/profiles/sacco/profile_sacco.htm |date=April 14, 2006 }}. Retrieved April 25, 2006.</ref><ref name=Steinhauser /> where he spent his childhood until 1972, when they moved to Los Angeles.<ref name="drawnquarter"/><ref name=Steinhauser /> He began his journalism career working on the [[Sunset High School (Beaverton, Oregon)|Sunset High School]] newspaper in [[Beaverton, Oregon|Beaverton]], Oregon.<ref name="OPB-2012">{{cite news |last=Johnson |first=Barry |title=Weekend Wrap: Sacco, Blues & 'Jamb' |url=https://www.opb.org/artsandlife/article/weekend-wrap-sacco-blues-jamb/ |access-date=May 13, 2019 |publisher=[[Oregon Public Broadcasting]] |date=May 28, 2012 |archive-date=May 13, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190513064517/https://www.opb.org/artsandlife/article/weekend-wrap-sacco-blues-jamb/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> 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 [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]] in journalism from the [[University of Oregon]] in 1981 in three years. He 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."<ref name="readyourselfraw"/> After being briefly employed by the journal of the [[National Notary Association]], a job which he found "exceedingly, exceedingly boring,"<ref name="guardian"/> 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]].<ref name="BBC">Ben Arnold (August 27, 2004). [https://www.bbc.co.uk/collective/audio/joesacco1.ram Telephone interview with Joe Sacco] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102112255/http://www.bbc.co.uk/collective/audio/joesacco1.ram |date=November 2, 2012 }} ([[.ram]] file, source: [https://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A2948123 Interview with Joe Sacco] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140111211628/http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A2948123 |date=January 11, 2014 }}). [[BBC]]. Retrieved April 26, 2006.</ref>

He began working for a local publisher writing guidebooks.<ref name="readyourselfraw"/> Returning to his fondness for comics, he wrote a Maltese [[Romance comics in the United States (1946–1975)|romance comic]]<ref name=Steinhauser /> named ''Imħabba Vera'' ("''True Love''"), one of the first art-comics in the [[Maltese language]]. "Because Malta has no history of comics, comics weren't considered something for kids," he told ''[[The Village Voice]]''. "In one case, for example, the girl got pregnant and she went to Holland for an abortion. Malta is a [[Roman Catholic Church|Catholic]] 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."<ref name="villagevoice">Hillary Chute (July 19, 2005). [http://www.villagevoice.com/people/0530,interview,66032,24.html Stand Up Comics] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080512072751/http://www.villagevoice.com/people/0530,interview,66032,24.html |date=May 12, 2008 }}. ''The Village Voice''. Retrieved April 26, 2006.</ref>

Eventually returning to the United States, by 1985 Sacco had founded a [[satire|satirical]], [[alternative comics]] magazine called ''Portland Permanent Press'' in [[Portland, Oregon]].<ref name=Steinhauser /> When the magazine folded fifteen months later, he took a job at ''[[The Comics Journal]]'' as the staff news writer.<ref name="comicsjournal">Gary Groth (October 4, 2001). [http://www.tcj.com/aa02ws/i_sacco.html Joe Sacco, Frontline Journalist: Why Sacco went to Gorazde] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091004103422/http://www.tcj.com/aa02ws/i_sacco.html |date=October 4, 2009 }}. ''[[The Comics Journal]]'' (a magazine owned and operated by Fantagraphics Books). Retrieved April 26, 2006.</ref> This job provided the opportunity for him to create and edit another satire: the comics anthology ''Centrifugal Bumble-Puppy''<ref name="fantagraphics">[[Fantagraphics Books]]. [http://www.fantagraphics.com/artist/sacco/sacco_bio.html Joe Sacco] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060321200459/http://www.fantagraphics.com/artist/sacco/sacco_bio.html |date=March 21, 2006 }}. Retrieved April 25, 2006.</ref><ref name=Steinhauser /> (a name he took from an overcomplicated children's toy in [[Aldous Huxley]]'s ''[[Brave New World]]''), published by ''The Comics Journal''{{'}}s parent company [[Fantagraphics Books]].

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).<ref name="fantagraphics"/> The trip led him towards the ongoing [[Gulf War]] (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 (comics)|Palestine]]'', a documentary graphic novel, which gathers testimonies of survivors of war and trauma.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Priyadarshini|first1=Arya|last2=Sigroha|first2=Suman|date=2020-07-03|title=Recovering the Palestinian History of Dispossession through Graphics in Leila Abdelrazaq's Baddawi|url=https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/EIKO/article/view/73329|journal=Eikón / Imago|language=en|volume=9|pages=395–418|doi=10.5209/eiko.73329|s2cid=225546879 |issn=2254-8718|doi-access=|access-date=February 28, 2021|archive-date=March 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308105047/https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/EIKO/article/view/73329|url-status=live}}</ref>

The Gulf War segment of ''Yahoo'' drew Sacco into a study of Middle Eastern politics, and he traveled to Israel and the [[Palestinian territories]] 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]] in 1996<ref name=Steinhauser /> and sold more than 30,000 copies in the UK.<ref name="palestine">[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/nov/22/joe-sacco-interview-rachel-cooke Eyeglass in Gaza] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190503100537/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/nov/22/joe-sacco-interview-rachel-cooke |date=May 3, 2019 }} Interview in "[[The Guardian]]".</ref>

Sacco next travelled to [[Sarajevo]] and [[Goražde]] near the end of the [[Bosnian War]], and produced a series of reports in the same style as ''Palestine'': the comics ''[[Safe Area Goražde]]'', ''[[The Fixer (comics)|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.<ref name="fantagraphics"/><ref name="guggenheim">[http://www.gf.org/01fellow.html Guggenheim Foundation 2001 Fellows Page], [[John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation|Guggenheim Foundation]] (2001) {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070701124042/http://www.gf.org/01fellow.html |date=July 1, 2007 }}. Retrieved October 7, 2006.</ref> ''Safe Area Goražde'' won the [[Eisner Award]] for Best Original Graphic Novel in 2001.

[[File:Joe Sacco Iraq.jpg|thumb|Sacco in Iraq in 2005 with the 1st Battalion, 23rd Marines inside the [[Haditha Dam]]]]
He has also 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]]''. In 2005 he wrote and drew two eight-page comics depicting events in Iraq published in ''[[The Guardian]]''. He also contributed a 16-page piece in April 2007's issue of ''[[Harper's Magazine]]'', 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]] and [[Rafah]] in November 1956.<ref>{{cite web |first=Rachel |last=Cooke |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/nov/22/joe-sacco-interview-rachel-cooke |title=Eyeless in Gaza |work=[[The Observer]] |date=November 22, 2009 |access-date=November 22, 2009 |archive-date=May 3, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190503100537/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/nov/22/joe-sacco-interview-rachel-cooke |url-status=live }}</ref> In June 2012, a book on [[poverty in the United States]], ''[[Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt]]'', co-written with journalist [[Chris Hedges]], was published.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lannan.org/bios/chris-hedges |title=Chris Hedges – Lannan Foundation |publisher=Lannan.org |access-date=October 15, 2012 |archive-date=December 8, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121208162106/http://www.lannan.org/bios/chris-hedges/ |url-status=live }}</ref>  His latest work is ''Paying The Land'' (2020) discussing climate change and the indigenous [[Dene]] community of Northwest Canada, who, he says, were subject to [[cultural genocide]] by means of compulsory residential schooling, treaties, and capitalism.

Sacco currently lives in [[Portland, Oregon]].<ref name="fantagraphics"/>

==Awards==
In addition to his 1996 [[American Book Award]], and 2001 [[Guggenheim Fellowship]], Sacco's ''Safe Area Goražde'' brought him a [[Time magazine]] "Best Comic of 2000" award,<ref name="heraldscotland.com">{{cite web |title=The Scottish photojournalist who turned the horror of life as a child soldier into a graphic novel |url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/13894410.scottish-photojournalist-turned-horror-life-child-soldier-graphic-novel/#:~:text=Safe%20Area%20Gorazde%2C%20Joe%20Sacco,Magazine%27s%20Best%20Comic%20of%202000. |website=HeraldScotland |access-date=20 May 2021 |language=en |date=25 October 2015 |archive-date=May 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210520134838/https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/13894410.scottish-photojournalist-turned-horror-life-child-soldier-graphic-novel/#:~:text=Safe%20Area%20Gorazde%2C%20Joe%20Sacco,Magazine%27s%20Best%20Comic%20of%202000. |url-status=live }}</ref> followed by the 2001 [[Eisner Award]] for Best Original Graphic Novel,<ref name="comic-con.org-awards-2000s">{{cite web |title=Awards 2000s |url=https://www.comic-con.org/awards/2000s |website=Comic-Con International: San Diego |access-date=20 May 2021 |language=en |date=2012-12-02 |archive-date=October 6, 2014 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20141006153947/http://www.comic-con.org/awards/2000s |url-status=dead }}</ref> and 2001 [[Eagle Award (comics)|Eagle Award]] for Best Original Graphic Novel,<ref name="hahnlibrary.net-eagle">{{cite web |title=2000 Eagle Awards |url=http://www.hahnlibrary.net/comics/awards/eagle00.php |website=www.hahnlibrary.net |access-date=20 May 2021 |archive-date=February 15, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220215023923/http://www.hahnlibrary.net/comics/awards/eagle00.php |url-status=live }}</ref> and 2001 [[Harvey Award]] nomination for Best Writer and Best Graphic Album of Original Work.

The ''Palestine'' collection won the 2002 [[Firecracker Alternative Book Award]] for Outstanding Graphic Novel.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.readersread.com/awards/firecracker.htm|title=Firecracker Alternative Book Awards|work=ReadersRead.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090304133738/http://www.readersread.com/awards/firecracker.htm|archive-date=Mar 4, 2009}}</ref>

His ''Footnotes in Gaza'' was nominated for the 2009 [[Los Angeles Times Book Prize''|Los Angeles Times'' Book Prize]] Graphic Novel award.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://events.latimes.com/bookprizes/previous-winners/year-2009/ |title=2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalists |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141111014236/http://events.latimes.com/bookprizes/previous-winners/year-2009/ |archive-date=November 11, 2014 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> It received the 2010 [[The Ridenhour Prizes|Ridenhour Book Prize]] and the<ref>[http://www.ridenhour.org/recipients_02h.shtml "Joe Sacco: 2010 Recipient of The Ridenhour Book Prize,"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110930215855/http://www.ridenhour.org/recipients_02h.shtml |date=September 30, 2011 }} Ridenhour website. Retrieved August 26, 2011.</ref>  2012 Oregon Book Award.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://comicsbeat.com/joe-sacco-wins-oregon-book-award-for-footnotes-in-gaza/|title = Syndicated Comics|date = April 24, 2012|access-date = May 12, 2014|archive-date = May 13, 2014|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140513024824/http://comicsbeat.com/joe-sacco-wins-oregon-book-award-for-footnotes-in-gaza/|url-status = live}}</ref> In 2014, his graphic novel collection ''Journalism'' received the Pacific Northwest College of Art Graphic Literature Award in 2014 from the Oregon Book Awards.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.literary-arts.org/2014/01/2014-oregon-book-awards-finalists-fellowship-recipients/|title = 2014 Oregon Book Awards Finalists & Fellowship Recipients|date = January 6, 2014|access-date = May 12, 2014|archive-date = February 18, 2014|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140218210206/http://www.literary-arts.org/2014/01/2014-oregon-book-awards-finalists-fellowship-recipients/|url-status = live}}</ref>

Joe Sacco was awarded the degree of Doctor of Literature (Honoris Causa) by the University of Malta on November 17, 2023.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.um.edu.mt/newspoint/news/features/2023/11/honoris-causa-2023-valletta|title=Judge Philip Sciberras (posthumously) and Cartoonist Joe Sacco awarded Honoris Causa degrees by UM|website=University of Malta|access-date=November 18, 2023|archive-date=November 18, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231118112326/https://www.um.edu.mt/newspoint/news/features/2023/11/honoris-causa-2023-valletta|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Bibliography==
===Comic books===
====Solo====
*1988–1992: ''Yahoo'' #1–6. [[Fantagraphics Books]]
*1993–1995: ''[[Palestine (comics)|Palestine]]'' #1–9. Fantagraphics Books
*1994: ''Spotlight on the Genius that is Joe Sacco''. Fantagraphics Books
*1998: ''Stories From Bosnia'' #1: ''Šoba''. [[Drawn & Quarterly]] — reprinted in ''[[War's End]]''

====Editor====
*1987–1988: ''Centrifugal Bumble-Puppy''. Fantagraphics Books
*1987: ''[[Honk (magazine)|Honk!]]''. Fantagraphics Books

=== Comics journalism stories ===
* "Christmas with Karadžić," ''[[Zero Zero (comics)|Zero Zero]]'' #15 (March 1997) — reprinted in ''[[War's End]]''
* "The War Crimes Trials," ''[[Details (magazine)|Details]]'' (September 1998), pp.&nbsp;260–265.
* "The Rude Blues," ''Details'' (April 2000), pp.&nbsp;140–145.
* "Hebron: A Look Inside," ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' (March 12, 2001), pp.&nbsp;40–43.
* "The Underground War in Gaza," ''[[The New York Times Magazine]]'' (July 6, 2003).
* [http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Guardian/documents/2005/02/25/sacco1.pdf "Complacency Kills,"] ''[[The Guardian Weekend]]'' (Feb. 26, 2005), pp.&nbsp;16–24.
* "Down! Up! You're in the Iraqi Army Now", ''[[Harper's Magazine]]'' (April 2007), 16 pp.

===Books===
====Solo====
*1993: ''Palestine: A Nation Occupied''. Fantagraphics Books. {{ISBN|978-1560971504}} (collects ''Palestine'' #1–5)
*1996: ''Palestine: In the Gaza Strip''. Fantagraphics Books. {{ISBN|978-1560973003}} (collects ''Palestine'' #4–9)
*1997: ''War Junkie''. Fantagraphics Books. {{ISBN|1-56097-170-3}}.
*2000: ''[[Safe Area Goražde|Safe Area Goražde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992–1995]]''. [[Fantagraphics Books]]. {{ISBN|1-56097-470-2}} (expanded edition 2010)
*2001: ''[[Palestine (comics)|Palestine]]''. Fantagraphics Books. {{ISBN|1-56097-432-X}} (collects ''Palestine'' #1–9) (expanded edition in 2007)
*2003: ''[[The Fixer (comics)|The Fixer: A Story from Sarajevo]]''. Drawn & Quarterly Books. {{ISBN|1-896597-60-2}}
*2003: ''[[Notes from a Defeatist]]''. Fantagraphics Books. {{ISBN|1-56097-510-5}} (collects ''Yahoo'' #1–6)
*2005: ''[[War's End|War's End: Profiles from Bosnia 1995–96]]''. Drawn & Quarterly. {{ISBN|1-896597-92-0}}
*2006: ''[[But I Like It]]''. Fantagraphics Books. {{ISBN|1-56097-729-9}}
*2009: ''[[Footnotes in Gaza]]''. [[Metropolitan Books]], {{ISBN|0-8050-7347-7}}. [[Jonathan Cape]], {{ISBN|0-224-07109-2}}
*2012: ''[[Journalism (book)|Journalism]]''. [[Metropolitan Books]], {{ISBN|978-0-8050-9486-2}}
*2013: ''The Great War: July 1, 1916: The First Day of the Battle of the Somme''. W. W. Norton & Company. {{ISBN|978-0-393-08880-9}}
*2014: ''Bumf Vol. 1: I Buggered the Kaiser''. Fantagraphics Books. {{ISBN|978-1-60699-748-2}}
*2020: ''Paying the Land''. Henry Holt and Co. {{ISBN|9781627799034}}
*2024: ''War on Gaza''. Fantagraphics Books. {{ISBN|979-8-8750-0090-4}}

====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]], {{ISBN|978-1-5685-8643-4}}

==See also==
* [[Alternative comics]]
* ''[[@earth]]''
* ''[[Eye (magazine)|Eye]]''

==References==
=== Notes ===
{{Reflist}}

=== Sources ===
* 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]]'' (November 10).
* {{cite magazine|last=Arnold|first=Andrew|date=Oct 31, 2003|url=http://www.time.com/time/columnist/arnold/article/0,9565,535659,00.html|title=Looks Like a Job for 'The Fixer': Joe Sacco's latest work of comix-journalism.|magazine=[[Time.com]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100811202501/https://time.com/time/columnist/arnold/article/0,9565,535659,00.html|archive-date=Aug 11, 2010|url-status=dead}}
* {{cite magazine|last=Baker|first=Bill|date=Dec 27, 2000|url=http://news.wizardworld.com/Comics/CB1227-Sacco.asp|title=<nowiki>[</nowiki>Undeclared<nowiki>]</nowiki> Wartime: 5 Minutes with Joe Sacco on Palestine|magazine=[[Wizard (magazine)|WizardWorld.com]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020615132623/http://news.wizardworld.com/Comics/CB1227-Sacco.asp|archive-date=15 June 2002|url-status=dead}} 
* {{cite magazine|last=Baker|first=Bill|date=Dec 28, 2000|url=http://news.wizardworld.com/Comics/CB1228-Sacco2.asp|title=Comics Journalism 101: 5 Minutes with Joe Sacco.|magazine=[[Wizard (magazine)|WizardWorld.com]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010814000841/http://news.wizardworld.com/Comics/CB1228-Sacco2.asp|archive-date=14 Aug 2001|url-status=dead}}
* {{cite magazine|last=Baker|first=Bill|date=Jan 2, 2001|url=http://news.wizardworld.com/Comics/CB0102-War.asp|url-status=dead|title=War Tales: 5 Minutes with Joe Sacco on Safe Area Gorazde.|magazine=[[Wizard (magazine)|WizardWorld.com]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010819002252/http://news.wizardworld.com/Comics/CB0102-War.asp|archive-date=Aug 19, 2001}}
* Dodge, Chris. 2000. "Art behind the lines: How a comic book can reveal the truth of war." ''[[Utne Reader]]'' (May–June): 94-95
* {{cite journal|last=Doughty|first=Dick|date=1996|title=Palestine with attitude|journal=[[Journal of Palestine Studies]]|volume=27|number=2|pages=99–100|doi=10.2307/2538288|jstor=2538288 }}
* [[Gavin Edwards (writer)|Edwards, Gavin]]. 2000. "The art of war." ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]'' (June)
* {{cite news|last=Farah |first=Christopher |url=http://www.salon.com/books/int/2003/12/05/sacco/ |title=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 |work=[[Salon.com|Salon]] |date=December 5, 2003}}
* {{cite AV media|first=Bob|last=Garfield|author-link=Bob Garfield|url= http://www.wnyc.org/onthemedia/otm111403.html|title=Sacco's New War|work=[[WNYC]] / [[National Public Radio]]'s [[On the Media]]|date=November 14, 2003|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040823113450/https://www.wnyc.org/onthemedia/otm111403.html|archive-date=Aug 23, 2004}} {{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050122035753/http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/transcripts_111403_sacco.html|url=http://www.wnyc.org/onthemedia/transcripts/transcripts_111403_sacco.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 Jan 2005|title=Sacco's New War (transcript)|work=[[On the Media]]}}
* {{cite news|last=Gallivan|first=Joseph|date=Nov 28, 2003|url=http://www.portlandtribune.com/archview.cgi?id=21273|title=Serious ink: Cartoonist Joe Sacco doesn't shy from conflict; in fact, he wants to tell all about it.|work=[[Portland Tribune]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050221105530/https://www.portlandtribune.com/archview.cgi?id=21273|archive-date=21 Feb 2005}}
* {{cite news|last=Garelick|first=Jon|date=Feb 23, 2001|url=http://12.11.184.13/boston/arts/books/documents/00606035.htm|title=Orwell with India ink: Joe Sacco's war journalism|work=[[Boston Phoenix]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060302134910/http://12.11.184.13/boston/arts/books/documents/00606035.htm|archive-date=2 Mar 2006}}
* [[Hajdu, David]]. 2003. [http://www.nybooks.com/articles/16515 "Comics for Grown-Ups,"] ''[[The New York Review of Books]]'' 50 (13; August 14).
* [[R. C. Harvey|Harvey, R. C.]] 2001. [http://www.rcharvey.com/rantsraves.htm "Opus 60: Tittles and Jots: A Quick Look at What's Still on the Stands and Some Cartoonist Reportage."] ''Rants & Raves'' (May 23).
* {{cite news|author-link=Chris Hedges|last=Hedges|first=Chris|date=June 1, 1997 |title=A cartoonist sketches outline of Bosnia's pain|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/01/world/a-cartoonist-sketches-the-outline-of-bosnia-s-pain.html}}
* [[Jeet Heer|Heer, Jeet]]. 2003. "More about the war: Joe Sacco's comics reveal things about conflicts that the news just can't." ''[[National Post]]'' (October 9)
* [[Christopher Hitchens|Hitchens, Christopher]]. 2000. "The Draftsman's Contract" <nowiki>[</nowiki>review of [[Safe Area Goražde|Safe Area Gorazde]]<nowiki>]</nowiki>,  ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' (June 11)
* {{cite journal|last=Iannelli |first=E. J. |date=Summer 2000 |title=Battle lines: Joe Sacco's illustrated journalism puts a face on Bosnia |journal=Resonance |volume=26 |pages=10–11}}
* {{cite book|last=Kozol |first=Wendy |section=Complicities of Witnessing in Joe Sacco's ''Palestine'' |title=Theoretical Perspectives on Human Rights and Literature|editor-first1=Elizabeth |editor-last1=Goldberg |editor-first2=Alexandra S. |editor-last2=Moore |pages=165–179|location=New York |publisher=Routledge |date=2011}}
* [[Ken Kurson|Kurson, Ken]]. 1996? "The good word." ''[[Might (magazine)|Might]]'' magazine: (3)
* Lorberer, Eric. 2000. "Graphic novels: Safe Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995 by Joe Sacco" [review]. ''[[Rain Taxi]]'' 5 (2; Summer): 16
* {{cite book|first1=Andrea A. |last1=Lunsford |first2= Adam |last2=Rosenblatt |section=‘Down a Road and into an Awful Silence’: Graphic Listening in Joe Sacco’s Comics Journalism |title=Silence and Listening as Rhetorical Arts |editor-first1=Cheryl |editor-last1=Glenn |editor-first2= Krista |editor-last2=Ratcliffe |location=Carbondale |publisher= Southern Illinois University Press|date= 2011 |pages=130–146}}
* [[Christopher Lydon|Lydon, Christopher]]. 2001. "Cartoon Journalist Joe Sacco [interview]. [[WBUR-FM|WBUR]]'s ''[[The Connection (radio program)|The Connection]]'' (April 19)
* {{cite news|last=Mautner |first=Christopher |date=May 21, 2000 |title='Safe Area Gorazde': Cartoonish art draws compelling story of war's horrors |work=[[The Patriot-News]]}}
* {{cite news|first=Kristine|last=McKenna|author-link=Kristine McKenna|date=January 2–8, 2004|url=http://www.laweekly.com/ink/04/06/features-mckenna.php|title=Brueghel in Bosnia: Kristine McKenna talks with graphic journalist Joe Sacco | work=[[LA Weekly]]| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050323102241/https://www.laweekly.com/ink/04/06/features-mckenna.php|archive-date=Mar 23, 2005}}
* {{cite news|first=Charles Shaar|last=Murray|author-link=Charles Shaar Murray|date=4 Feb 2003| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/palestine-by-joe-sacco-117944.html|title=Palestine by Joe Sacco: The graphic truth about Palestinian existence|work=[[The Independent]]}}
* Nevins, Mark. 2002. "Drawing From Life: An Interview with Joe Sacco." ''[[International Journal of Comic Art]]'' 4 (2; Fall): 1-52
* {{cite news|date=Nov 14, 2003| url=http://www.oregonlive.com/entertainment/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/entertainment/106864240276490.xml|title=The thin black line: Cartoonist Joe Sacco, who illustrated the Sarajevo war zone in 'The Fixer,' will be in town to discuss his craft|work=[[The Oregonian]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040222150554/https://www.oregonlive.com/entertainment/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/entertainment/106864240276490.xml|archive-date=22 Feb 2004|url-status=dead}}
* {{cite web|last=Phipps|first=Keith|date=2000|url=http://avclub.theonion.com/reviews/words/words_s/safeareagorazdethewarine01.html|title=Joe Sacco, Safe Area Gorazde: The War In Eastern Bosnia|website=[[The A.V. Club]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010703132446/https://avclub.theonion.com/reviews/words/words_s/safeareagorazdethewarine01.html|archive-date=3 July 2001}}
* {{cite magazine|last=Reid|first=Calvin|date=Nov 24, 2003|title=Joe Sacco, Comics Journalist|magazine=[[Publishers Weekly]]|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/interviews/article/33470-joe-sacco-comics-journalist.html}}
* {{cite magazine|last=Rhode |first=Michael |date=March 2000 |title=Sequential Reportage [letter]|magazine=[[The Comics Journal]] |number=221}}
* {{cite book|first1=Adam |last1=Rosenblatt |first2= Andrea A. |last2=Lunsford |section=Critique, Caricature, and Compulsion in Joe Sacco’s Comics Journalism|title=The Rise of the American Comics Journalist|editor-first1=Paul |editor-last1=Williams |editor-first2= James |editor-last2=Lyons |location=Jackson |publisher=University Press of Mississippi |date=2010 |pages=68–88}}
* {{cite news|last=Said|first=Edward|author-link=Edward Said|date=Dec 21, 2002|url=http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,863199,00.html|title=Heroes and villains: As a child, Edward Said would marvel at the adventures in comic books. Joe Sacco's Palestine took him back to that time - and to the heart of the Middle East conflict|work=[[The Guardian]]|url-status=}}{{dead link|date=September 2023}}
* {{cite journal|last=Scherr |first=Rebecca |title=Framing Human Rights: Comics Form and the Politics of Recognition in Joe Sacco's ''Footnotes in Gaza'' |journal= [[Textual Practice]] |volume=29 |number= 1 |date=2015 |pages=111–131 |doi=10.1080/0950236X.2014.952771 |url=https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2014.952771}}
* {{cite news|last=Spurgeon |first=Tom|author-link=Tom Spurgeon|title=Drawing Enemy Lines: Safe Area Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia, 1992-95 |work=[[The Comics Journal]] |number=227 |date=September 2000 |pages=5–6}}* {{cite magazine|author-link=Joel Stein|last=Stein |first=Joel |date=May 1, 2000 |title=Joe Sacco's ''Safe Area Gorazde'' is a comic-book look at a horrible war |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|page=72}}
* {{cite news|last=Thompson |first=David|url=http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/politicsphilosophyandsociety/0,6121,868704,00.html |title=Eyewitness in Gaza: Joe Sacco's comic-book format provides an unlikely but compelling insight into the Palestinian experience in Palestine |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=January 5, 2003}}
* [[Stephen Totilo|Totilo, Stephen]]. 2000. "Stuff we like: ''Safe Area Gorazde''." ''[[Brill's Content]]'' (May)
* [[Everett True|True, Everett]]. 2000. "No comic relief: It might be in cartoon form but Joe Sacco's account of life in wartorn Bosnia is not a laughing matter." ''[[London Times]]'' (June): 21
* [[John Vaillant|Vaillant, John]]. 1998. "War 'toons. Joe Sacco: front-line correspondence, with pens and brushes." ''[[Men's Journal]]'' (November): 58
* {{cite book|last=Woo |first=Benjamin |section=Reconsidering Comics Journalism: Information and Experience in Joe Sacco’s ''Palestine''|title=The Rise and Reason of Comics and Graphic Literature: Critical Essays on the Form |editor-first1= Joyce |editor-last1=Goggin |editor-first2= Dan |editor-last2=Hassler-Forest |pages=166–177 |location=Jefferson, NC|publisher=McFarland |date=2010 |chapter-url=https://bookcandy.typepad.com/files/woo_sacco.pdf}}

==Further reading==
*{{cite book
|last = Chute
|first = Hillary
|author-link=Hillary Chute
|title = Disaster Drawn: Visual Witness, Comics, and Documentary Form
|url = http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674504516
|year = 2016
|publisher = Harvard University Press
|isbn = 9780674504516}}
*{{cite book
|last = Marshall
|first = Monica
|title = Joe Sacco
|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=YPimJlt_Lb8C
|year = 2005
|publisher = Rosen Publishing Group
|isbn = 978-1-4042-0284-9}}
* {{cite news|title=Soaking In 'The People's Jacuzzi': Notes On Joe Sacco's Satire|first=Tynan|last=Stewart|date=October 29, 2020|work=Solrad: The Online Literary Magazine for Comics|url=https://solrad.co/soaking-in-the-peoples-jacuzzi-notes-on-joe-saccos-satire}}

==External links==
'''Comics by Sacco'''
* [http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Guardian/documents/2006/01/20/fullsacco1.pdf 2006 report on military action in Iraq], ''The Guardian''
* [http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Guardian/documents/2005/02/25/sacco1.pdf 2005 report on military action in Iraq], ''The Guardian''
* [https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2015/jan/09/joe-sacco-on-satire-a-response-to-the-attacks?CMP=ema_565 On Satire – a response] to the [[Charlie Hebdo shooting|''Charlie Hebdo'' attacks]] (January 2015), ''The Guardian''

'''Biographies'''
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*{{comicbookdb|type=creator|id=3236|title=Joe Sacco}}
*[http://www.fantagraphics.com/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&page=shop.browse&category_id=273&Itemid=62 Fantagraphics Books: Joe Sacco]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060321200459/http://www.fantagraphics.com/artist/sacco/sacco_bio.html Joe Sacco Biography From Fantagraphics]
*[http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/04/0081476 Harpers magazine piece]
*[http://www.transmopolis.com/2010/01/an-evening-with-joe-sacco-in-los-angeles/ An Evening With Joe Sacco in Los Angeles]

'''Interviews'''
*[http://7thavenueproject.com/post/451008662/joe-sacco-footnotes-in-gaza Joe Sacco on ''Footnotes in Gaza''] – Interview on the 7th Avenue Project radio show
*[http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2007/11/2008525185042679346.html Joe Sacco on ''Palestine''] – Interview by ''[[Al Jazeera English|Al Jazeera]] English''
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060526003807/http://www.laweekly.com/general/features/brueghel-in-bosnia/2120/ Brueghel in Bosnia] Interview in ''[[L.A. Weekly]]''.
*[https://www.motherjones.com/arts/qa/2005/07/joe_sacco.html The Art Of War] Interview in ''[[Mother Jones (magazine)|Mother Jones]]''.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070928001811/http://crowncommission.com/?p=74 Joe Sacco, Man of the World] Audio interview on mp3 from The Crown Commission.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20101206132819/http://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/display/web/2007/12/12/sacco/ Interview with Joe Sacco] – interview on ''[[Weekend America]]''
*[https://www.bdtheque.com/interviews/136/joe-sacco-vo Interview with Joe Sacco] on bdtheque.com for the release of Footnotes in Gaza.
*[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/nov/22/joe-sacco-interview-rachel-cooke Eyeglass in Gaza] Interview in "[[The Guardian]]".
*[http://www.believermag.com/issues/201106/?read=interview_sacco Joe Sacco in conversation with Hillary Chute] – Interview in ''[[The Believer (magazine)|The Believer]]''
*[https://www.c-span.org/person/?joesacco Joe Sacco on C-SPAN's Book TV]
* [https://imagetextjournal.com/joe-sacco-presentation-from-the-2002-uf-comics-conference/ Joe Sacco: Presentation and interview from the 2002 UF Comics Conference] — ''ImageTexT''

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