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Joe Sacco Quotes

Type: Journalist Quotes Category: Quotes Year of Birth: 1960 Nationality: Maltese Find on Amazon: Joe Sacco Related Authors: Ambrose Bierce Dave Barry Erma Bombeck Kin Hubbard Bob Woodward Jessica Savitch George Will Steve Powers

And I think I find, I know a lot of people around, in different cities, and so it's not - it might sound strange - but it's not that hard to say good-bye, because I know there's other people where I'm going. I can sort of fit in in a lot of places. Joe Sacco And, in some ways I like traveling, in other ways I'm sort of fed up by the whole notion. Joe Sacco For me, one advantage of comic journalism is that I can depict the past, which is hard to do if you're a photographer or filmmaker. Joe Sacco 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 if you're working for them, they want something by a certain time. Joe Sacco I don't often go to a place just to check out all the cultural sites of a city. Joe Sacco I like good, straight reporting, too. Joe Sacco I like listening to people, it's not even out of - I'm not like a professional listener or anything like that, but I enjoy people's stories. Joe Sacco I think any journalist who spends time in a place realizes that there are lots of stories around beyond their primary story. You meet so many interesting people and have all kinds of experiences. Joe Sacco I think I'm generally a good listener anyway. Joe Sacco I tried to draw people more realistically, but the figure I neglected to update was myself. Joe Sacco I try to ask visual questions. I'll ask what someone was wearing, if that seems relevant. If possible, I'll walk over the same ground that they're depicting. Of course, I can never get it precisely as it was. Joe Sacco I will interview bigwigs if I get the chance, but you are seldom surprised by people in power - you've got to get awfully damn close to get anything new. Joe Sacco I'd much rather hang out in a cafe. That's where things are really happening. Joe Sacco I'd rather go to a place and spend a couple of months, get to know it, get to know the people. Joe Sacco I'm not a good tourist, I don't like tourism. Joe Sacco In this case I just wanted to be in one place, much like the Gorazde book, I feel it was a better way of doing it, get to know some people well. Joe Sacco It became clear to me that I had to push it toward a more representational way of drawing. Joe Sacco It's a visual world and people respond to visuals. Joe Sacco It's like a film director trying to represent a scene that took place in the 1700s. You reconstruct it to the best of your ability. Joe Sacco My guide had a copy of Palestine on my last trip to Gaza. He'd bring it out and show people what I was trying to do. That usually went over pretty well. Joe Sacco Of course, I'm drawn to a place like Iraq because It's the biggest story of our generation. Joe Sacco Oh, it's essential. I mean, you have to - if I'm writing about the Middle East, I have to go there, and if possible, stay long enough to get a real feeling for what's going on. Joe Sacco Robert Crumb is an influence on how I draw, but not on the subject matter I take or my approach. One thing I do like about Crumb is that he's chronicled his age, his times, and I think that is what artists should do. Joe Sacco The people whose work I've admired are people like George Orwell and others like Michael Herr and, of course, some of Hunter S. Thompson's work. Joe Sacco 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 isn't apparent in the other books. Joe Sacco What I've learned is that people like to talk about themselves. And that's kind of the advantage you have when you're asking people questions. Joe Sacco 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 self-conscious of what I was doing. Joe Sacco When I went to Bosnia, I was there to tell someone else's story and I was more methodical. Joe Sacco With comics you can put interesting and solid information in a format that's pretty palatable. Joe Sacco

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