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Joe Sacco was born in Malta in 1960. The following year, his family moved to Australia before settling in Portland, Oregon, in 1972. Sacco received his B.A. in journalism from the University of Oregon in 1981. Two years later, he returned to Malta and published his first professional cartooning work-a series of romance comics.
In 1985, after moving back to Portland, Sacco co-edited and co-published Portland Permanent Press, the monthly comics newspaper. He moved to Los Angeles in 1986 and worked for Fantagraphics Books. There, he edited the news section for the Comics Journal and created the satirical comic magazine Centrifugal Bumble-Puppy.
Sacco traveled...