Joe Sacco
2 October: JS born in Malta
The Sacco family moves to Melbourne, Australia, where JS's father works as an engineer and his mother as a teacher.
The Sacco family moves to Los Angeles.
The Saccos move to Beaverton, Oregon, where JS attends Sunset High School, and works on the school newspaper.
JS gradauates high school. begins working on a BA in Journalism at the University of Oregon.
JS graduates from U of Oregon. For the next few years he has low-level journalism jobs, including a stint with the journal of the National Notary Association. Frustrated, he returns to Malta, where he works writing guidebooks. He creates his first comic, in Maltese, Imħabba Vera (True Love).
JS returns to the US and founds the Portland Permanent Press in Portland, Oregon.
After the Portland Permanent Press folds, JS works for The Comics Journal as a staff news writer.