Photo: #Joe Sacco's self portrait.
Photo: #Joe Sacco has travelled to several war zones to gather interviews and photographs which form the basis of accounts of the conflcits in the form of graphic novels.

Joe Sacco goes to war to write a comic book


St. Paul, Minn. — Joe Sacco works as a war correspondent.

He goes to a war zone, takes notes and photographs, then returns home, and creates a 250-page comic book.

Sacco describes himself as a journalist, doing what he calls "comics journalism." He's done critically acclaimed accounts of the war in Bosnia and the Palestinian situation.

He told Minnesota Public Radio's Euan Kerr he is like any journalist, except it can take him months -- or even years -- of work at his drawing board to finish his stories.

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