Joe Sacco

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October 02, 1960

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Joe Sacco was born in Malta on October 2, 1960. At the age of one, he moved with his family to Australia, 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 B.A. 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." Afte...more

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Average rating: 4.14 · 7,725 ratings · 716 reviews · 31 distinct works

	Palestine by Joe Sacco, Edward W. Said (Introduction) 4.19 avg rating — 3,302 ratings — published 1999 — 16 editions	My rating:
	Safe Area Goražde: The War in Eastern Bosnia, 1992-1995 by Joe Sacco, Christopher Hitchens (Introduction) 4.30 avg rating — 1,906 ratings — published 2000 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Footnotes in Gaza 4.27 avg rating — 614 ratings — published 2009 — 9 editions	My rating:
	The Fixer: A Story from Sarajevo 3.84 avg rating — 604 ratings — published 2003 — 5 editions	My rating:
	War's End: Profiles from Bosnia, 1995-1996 3.82 avg rating — 247 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	Notes from a Defeatist 3.34 avg rating — 203 ratings — published 2003 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Palestine, Vol. 2: In the Gaza Strip 4.27 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 1996 — 5 editions	My rating:
	But I Like It 3.21 avg rating — 97 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Fixer and Other Stories 3.94 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Palestine, Vol. 1: A Nation Occupied 4.30 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1993	My rating:

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Palestine (2 books)
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“Some of the world's blackest holes are out
in the open for anyone to see....”
― Joe Sacco, Palestine

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“A boy standing in the rain, and what is he thinking?”
― Joe Sacco, Palestine

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“Make no mistake, everywhere you go, not just in Marvel Comics,
there's parallel universes...Here? On the surface streets: traffic, couples in love,
falafel-to-go, tourists in jogging suits licking stamps for postcards... And over the
wall behind closed doors: other things-people strapped to chairs, sleep deprivation,
the smell of piss...other things happening for "reasons of national
security”
― Joe Sacco, Palestine

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