Joe Sacco, born on October 2, 1960, on the island of Malta, is a comic book author working in the United States. Shortly after his birth, his family emigrated to Australia, and when he was 12, they settled in Los Angeles. He initially studied journalism but earned a master's degree in Art from the University of Oregon in 1981. He began to develop an interest in comics and sent some pages to the magazine Raw. For several years, he worked on a project about the Vietnam War, which never came to fruition. In How I Loved the War, he analyzes his feelings as a viewer during the Gulf War. In 1992, he visited Palestine and became interested in the situation of refugees, from which he created a series of comics, published in French in two albums: Palestine: An Occupied Nation (1993) and Palestine: In the Gaza Strip, later compiled into two volumes under the title Palestine. This remarkable work made him the inventor of immersive journalism in comics. His professional rigor earned him recognition and admiration from journalists even more than from comic book enthusiasts. For Palestine, he received the prestigious American Book Award in 1996. In 1995, Sacco traveled to the former Yugoslavia, particularly to Sarajevo in Bosnia-Herzegovina. From this experience, he created Soba, The Fixer, and Gorazde (two volumes). Joe Sacco's work has no equivalent in the world of comics and is more reminiscent of the path of adventurous journalists from the early 20th century. Always concerned with showing the human side behind major events, Joe Sacco allows his readers to decipher current events. His drawing, initially unpolished, is meticulous in its evocative details and perfectly serves his purpose.