Working: Joe Sacco’s Journalistic Comics

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🗓️ 25 October 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

This week, Isaac Butler talks with journalist and cartoonist Joe Sacco. Sacco is a Maltese-American cartoonist and journalist best known for his comics journalism. His books Palestine and Footnotes in Gaza have been critically praised and have won him several awards, including the American Book Award. His most recent book is Paying the Land. They talk about how he draws stories out of people and then draws those stories onto the page. Sacco talks in-depth about his creative process, which does not include story-boarding, and about how he gains the trust of his subjects—mostly by learning how to listen. Afterward, Isaac and co-host Rumaan Alam discuss what they found most striking about the interview and how Sacco’s advice can be applied to their own work. Send your questions about creativity and any other feedback to working@slate.com. Podcast production by Morgan Flannery. Host Isaac Butler Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody it's Tim Heidecker you know me Tim and Eric Bridesmaids and
0:03.4	Fantastic Four. I'd like to personally invite you to listen to office hours live
0:07.8	with me and my co-host DJ Doug Pound and Vic Berger.
0:12.3	Howdy.
0:13.0	Every week we bring you laughs, fun, games and lots of other surprises.
0:16.4	It's live, we take your Zoom calls.
0:18.0	We love having fun.
0:19.0	Excuse me?
0:20.0	Vicks said something.
0:21.0	Music, music.
0:22.0	Music. I like having fun. like to laugh I like to meet people who can make me laugh
0:29.0	Please subscribe
0:31.0	No subscribe. I'm showing things the way people see them. When people see someone on the street who is alcoholic or is homeless, they make assumptions about that person.
0:51.0	And so I'm taking it from that point of view where you make a
0:53.9	judgment about people you're seeing the effects it's only when you like
0:57.9	scratch a little deeper you talk to that homeless person you begin to
1:01.4	understand the systematic reasons why they might be there.
1:05.0	Welcome back to Working.
1:07.0	I'm your host, Ramon-Alam.
1:09.0	And I'm your other host, Isaac Butler.
1:11.0	Isaac, we just heard the voice of Joe Saco. host Isaac Butler. Isaac Butler.
1:13.0	We just heard the voice of Joe Sacco, who's your guest this week.
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