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

again to travel across Europe a trip which he chronicled in his autobiographical comic Yahoo. In 2009 his Footnotes in Gaza was publiJoe Saccod which investigates two forgotten massacres that took place in Khan Younis and Rafah in November 1956. Safe Area Goražde won the Eisner Award for Best Original Graphic Novel in 2001.

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) on the Bosnian War.