He began working for a local publisher writing guidebooks. ".I sort of decided to forget it and just go the other route, which was basically take my hobby, which has been cartooning, and see if I could make a living out of that," he later told the BBC. He was greatly frustrated with the journalist work that he found at the time, later saying, " a job writing very hard-hitting, interesting pieces that would really make some sort of difference." After being briefly employed by the journal of the National Notary Association, a job which he found "exceedingly, exceedingly boring," and several factories, he returned to Malta, his journalist hopes forgotten. in journalism from the University of Oregon in 1981 in three years. While journalism was his primary focus, this was also the period of time in which he developed his penchant for humor and satire. He began his journalism career working on the Sunset High School newspaper in Beaverton, Oregon. At the age of one, he moved with his family to Australia, where he spent his childhood until 1972, when they moved to Los Angeles. Joe Sacco was born in Malta on October 2, 1960.
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