Seattle’s the Stranger website chats with Joe Sacco, creator of But I Like It and Safe Area Gorazde:
Did you really want to be a punk musician and you just got sidetracked into being a journalist?
I think everyone and his brother has gone through a phase of wishing he were rock star but, uh, never seriously. I don’t like being onstage for one thing and I don’t have any musical talent, so at some point I decided to remove myself from the running. After touring with the Miracle Workers, a band from Portland and L.A., I stayed on in Europe and was doing rock posters. And that’s sort of how I got involved, by way of making art in the rock scene, not by way of music.
Sacco will be in Seattle next week.
September 21st, 2006 at 9:41 am
I just started reading But I Like It; it’s hilarious.
December 31st, 2006 at 8:45 am
I am a Maltese journalist with the daily newspaper l-orizzont. I would like to contact Mr Joe Sacco. Could he kindly give me an email or other means of contact?
Thank you
September 4th, 2007 at 10:40 am
His art captures facial expressions quit well. I am looking for a cartoonist to do the illustrations for a series of books for me and Mr. Sacco would fit the profile. Is it possible to send him a brief message?
cheers