But to hear him describe it, the cartoonist’s books more often than not have a tendency to take on a life of their own.
Sacco is almost certainly best known for pioneering comics journalism that has often taken him to heavily conflicted corners of the globe.
It’s a sentiment that was probably best expressed in the title of his 1997 collection, War Junkie.
Paying the Land is a quieter book in a number of respects — but the story it tells is every bit as important. Sacco seeks to document the story of an indigenous culture ravaged in the name of “progress.”