Eventually returning to the United States, by 1985 Sacco had founded a satirical, alternative comics magazine called "Portland Permanent Press" in Portland, Oregon. When the magazine folded fifteen months later, he took a job at "The Comics Journal" as the staff news writer. This job provided the opportunity for him to create and edit another satire: the comics anthology "Centrifugal Bumble-Puppy" (a name he took from an overcomplicated children's toy in Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World"), published by "The Comics Journal"s parent company Fantagraphics Books.