Joe Sacco is a Maltese-American cartoonist and journalist, born in Kirkop, Malta, on 2 October 1960. 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 the Israeli-occupied territories of Gaza and the West Bank was awarded the National Book Award in 1996 and was compiled in the graphic narrative Palestine (2001), and his later books include Footnotes in Gaza (2009).
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He won the Eisner Award for Best Writer/Artist-Nonfiction in 2010.
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