Joe Sacco

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 [gcd_link_issue](627970). His other notable monographs include [gcd_link_issue](791927), which won a Ridenhour Book Prize. Other notable works include [gcd_link_issue](1536033) and [gcd_link_issue](805818) on the Bosnian War. In 2020, Sacco released [gcd_link_issue](2125161), published by Henry Holt and Company.