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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“Footnotes are the finer-grained reality.”

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

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