Joe Sacco

Joe Sacco is a Maltese-American cartoonist and journalist, regarded as the first to practice rigorous investigative reporting in the comics form. His reporting on Palestinian life in Gaza and the West Bank won the National Book Award in 1996 and was later gathered into the graphic narrative Palestine (2001). He also drew Safe Area Goražde (2000) and The Fixer (2003) on the Bosnian War, and Footnotes in Gaza (2009), which won a Ridenhour Book Prize.