Daily Inspiration Quote by Joe Sacco

There is a quiet confession of power tucked into Sacco's offhand phrasing. "When I went to Bosnia" lands like a credential and a warning: the war zone as both moral summons and professional proving ground. But the real pivot is "to tell someone else's story". Sacco is flagging the ethical burden of reportage in a place where outsiders can easily strip-mine trauma for meaning. The intent is less self-congratulation than a description of constraint: in Bosnia, the story isn't his to own, so the work demands humility, verification, and an almost forensic patience.

"I was more methodical" does double duty. On the surface it's craft-talk - note-taking, cross-checking, building a record sturdy enough to survive denial and propaganda. Underneath, it's an admission that method is also a coping mechanism. Methodical reporting becomes a way to manage intimacy with catastrophe: you catalogue, you structure, you keep the chaos at arm's length long enough to transmit it.

Context matters: Sacco is a foundational figure in comics journalism, a form that gets side-eyed for subjectivity because the "camera" is a human hand. Bosnia, in the 1990s, was a landscape of contested narratives - ethnic cleansing, UN failure, Western media fatigue. By stressing method, Sacco is staking a claim that drawn reportage can be rigorously accountable, and that the most radical act in a post-truth battlefield is to slow down, listen hard, and let other people remain the protagonists of their own suffering.