- Journalist | October 2, 1960 -
It became clear to me that I had to push it toward a more representational way of drawing.
Joe Sacco
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I'm not a good tourist, I don't like tourism.
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I'd rather go to a place and spend a couple of months, get to know it, get to know the people.
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I will interview bigwigs if I get the chance, but you are seldom surprised by people in power - you've got to get awfully damn close to get anything new.
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I try to ask visual questions. I'll ask what someone was wearing, if that seems relevant. If possible, I'll walk over the same ground that they're depicting. Of course, I can never get it precisely as it was.
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I think I'm generally a good listener anyway.
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I think any journalist who spends time in a place realizes that there are lots of stories around beyond their primary story. You meet so many interesting people and have all kinds of experiences.
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I don't often go to a place just to check out all the cultural sites of a city.
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I don't like just traveling in for a short time. I've done that before, because sometimes you work for magazines and they have a budget, and if you're working for them, they want something by a certain time.
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And, in some ways I like traveling, in other ways I'm sort of fed up by the whole notion.
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