# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joe-sacco
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:35:56.198Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joe-sacco"
name: "Joe Sacco"
slug: "joe-sacco"
description: "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 Palestine (2001). His other notable monographs include Footnotes in Gaza (2009) which won a Ridenhour Book Prize, Safe Area Goražde (2000) and The Fixer (2003) on the Bosnian War, Paying the Land (2020), The War on Gaza (2024), and The Once and Future Riot (2025)."
tagline: "Maltese-American cartoonist and journalist; pioneer of the Non-Fiction Graphic Novel (b. 1960)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joe_Sacco.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1960-10-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.67
  momentum:             1.819939836699614
  historical:           22.798036
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump