Maltese-American journalist and cartoonist

Joe Sacco

Joe Sacco is a Maltese-American cartoonist and journalist. He is credited as the first artist to practice rigorous, investigative journalism using the comics form, also referred to as comics journalism. His work documenting Palestinian life in Gaza and the West Bank was awarded the National Book Award in 1996 and was compiled in the graphic narrative Palestine (2001). His other notable monographs include Footnotes in Gaza (2009) which won a Ridenhour Book Prize, Safe Area Goražde (2000) and The Fixer (2003) on the Bosnian War, Paying the Land (2020), The War on Gaza (2024), and The Once and Future Riot (2025).

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1960

October 2

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829 Theophilos succeeds his father Michael II as Byzantine Emperor.
939 Battle of Andernach: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, crushes a rebellion against his rule, by a coalition of Eberhard of Franconia and other Frankish dukes.
1187 Saladin won Jerusalem after the city surrendered to his forces following a prolonged siege.
1263 The Battle of Largs is fought between Norwegians and Scots.

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The world in 1960

When Joe arrived

april 1 The TIROS-1 satellite transmits the first television picture from space.
april 13 The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world's first satellite navigation system.
april 15 At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ella Baker leads a conference that results in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the principal organizations of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
april 19 Students in South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against president Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign.

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Camilla Belle 1986– American actress Henri Szeps 1943– Australian actor (died 2025) Lorraine Bracco 1954– American actress Mahatma Gandhi 1869–1948 leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule (born 1869) Tom Moody 1965– Australian cricketer William Ramsay 1852–1916 Scottish chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1852)

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