Safe Area Gorazde s/c: the war in Eastern Bosnia 1992-95 - Tapa blanda

Sacco's detailed, personal reporting captures his subject matter more convincingly than photographs or Christiane Amanpour.

Harrowing and bleakly humorous, Sacco's account of life during the Balkan conflict is a timeless portrait of ordinary people caught in desperate circumstances. It's also a work of genius in an unlikely genre: journalism in comic book form.

Joe Sacco is a unique figure in modern comics: there is no one else who combines sheer cartooning chops with a newspaper reporter's sensibility and instincts in quite the same way.... an especially powerful document of the effects of war. --Ed Howard ""The Best Comics of the Decade" "

Graphic in every sense of the term, Sacco 's account of everyday life in a city under siege puts one of the twentieth century 's least understood catastrophes in perspective; it 's the best argument around for comics as a journalistic medium.

Graphic in every sense of the term, Sacco's account of everyday life in a city under siege puts one of the twentieth century's least understood catastrophes in perspective; it's the best argument around for comics as a journalistic medium.

Published soon after the conflict that it documents, Safe Area Gorazde is an intense reading experience and an active call for the condemnation of tribal and international leaders who put politics ahead of humanity. --Suzette Chan"

[Demonstrates] how brilliantly comics can serve as reportage.

Graphic in every sense of the term, Sacco s account of everyday life in a city under siege puts one of the twentieth century s least understood catastrophes in perspective; it s the best argument around for comics as a journalistic medium."

Joe Sacco is an engaging and direct writer, but above all, he is a good journalist. Comics just happen to be the outlet for his reportage... [he is] a master of the unique medium of comics journalism.--William Jones

Joe Sacco lives in Portland, Oregon. He is the author of many acclaimed graphic novels, including Palestine, Safe Area Gorazde, But I Like It, Notes from a Defeatist, The Fixer, War's End, and Footnotes in Gaza.

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