(Malta) An author of alternative comics resident in the United States, Sacco took his degree in Journalism at Oregon University in 1981. After a number of years travelling and working in jobs he found unsatisfactory, in 1986 he moved to Los Angeles where he began working with Fantagraphics Books. From 1988 he began to travel around the world and meanwhile he published his own comic-book, Yahoo, which covered different subjects. His best known works are the graphic novels Palestine: In the Gaza Strip (1996), Safe Area Gorazde (2000) and Footnotes in Gaza (2009), which show a unique style somewhere between underground comic writing and reporting, which has won him major prizes and accolades. His book Paying about the land, about indigenous people in the Northwest Territories, Canada, was published in 2020. In 2025, he will release her new book, The Once and Future Riot.
