Joe Sacco

“I'm trying to show the complexity of things, the gray areas.”

“The comic form is a very powerful one because it's so direct.”

“You have to be a good listener. You have to be patient.”

“I'm interested in history, and I'm interested in the history of the powerless.”

“You can't just parachute into a place and expect to know what's going on.”

“class="highlight">War is a class issue. It's the poor who fight, get torn up, and glory in it.”

“Objectivity is a fallacy... The best you can do is be honest about what you're seeing.”

“The point is to make the reader feel something. To be there.”

“I'm not a war journalist. I'm a journalist who sometimes covers war.”

“What I want to do is represent the world as I see it, with all its messiness and contradictions.”

“There's always a subjective element to what I do.”

“Comics are a narrative medium, and it's a good medium for telling stories.”

“In a way, the drawings are a distillation of the reporting.”

“Footnotes are the finer-grained reality.”

“My stuff is not for kids. I mean, I would not let my 10-year-old son read my books.”