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22 quotes by Joe Sacco

Joe Sacco (born October 2, 1960) is a Maltese-American cartoonist and journalist. He is best known for his comics journalism, in particular in the books Palestine (1996) and Footnotes in Gaza (2009), on Israeli–Palestinian relations; and Safe Area Goražde (2000) and The Fixer (2003) on the Bosnian War.
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I'd much rather hang out in a cafe. That's where things are really happening.

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I tried to draw people more realistically, but the figure I neglected to update was myself.

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It's a visual world and people respond to visuals.

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And, in some ways I like traveling, in other ways I'm sort of fed up by the whole notion.

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I don't often go to a place just to check out all the cultural sites of a city.

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When I was there, something clicked in my head; I found myself interviewing people, searching out facts and figures. Later on I became much more... →

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I don't like just traveling in for a short time. I've done that before, because sometimes you work for magazines and they have a budget, and... →

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There's probably one more story about Bosnia that I'd like to do, because I spent a fair amount of time on the Serb side of the lines, which... →

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When I went to Bosnia, I was there to tell someone else's story and I was more methodical.

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I think I'm generally a good listener anyway.

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I'd rather go to a place and spend a couple of months, get to know it, get to know the people.

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I'm not a good tourist, I don't like tourism.

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It became clear to me that I had to push it toward a more representational way of drawing.

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