

While journalism was his primary focus, this was also the period of time in which he developed his penchant for humor and satire.

He began his journalism career working on the Sunset High School newspaper in Beaverton, Oregon.

At the age of one, he moved with his family to Melbourne, Australia, where he spent his childhood until 1972, when they moved to Los Angeles. His father Leonard was an engineer and his mother Carmen was a teacher. Sacco was born in Malta on October 2, 1960. In 2020, Sacco released Paying the Land, published by Henry Holt and Company. He is best known for his comics journalism, in particular in the books Palestine (1996) and Footnotes in Gaza (2009), on Israeli–Palestinian relations and Safe Area Goražde (2000) and The Fixer (2003) on the Bosnian War. Joe Sacco ( / ˈ s æ k oʊ/ born October 2, 1960) is a Maltese-American cartoonist and journalist.
