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The Fixer and Other Stories
THE COMPLETE SOFTCOVER COLLECTION OF BOSNIAN WAR SHORT STORIES FROM THE AUTHOR OF PALESTINE AND SAFE AREA GORAŽDE
Using old-fashioned pen and paper, the award-winning cartoonist Joe Sacco reports from the sidelines of wars around the world. The Fixer and Other Stories is a new softcover that collects Sacco’s landmark short stories on the Bosnian War that previously comprised the hardcover editions of The Fixer and War’s End.
216 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2009
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About the author
Joe Sacco
69 books1,598 followersJoe Sacco was born in Malta on October 2, 1960. At the age of one, he moved with his family to Australia, where he spent his childhood until 1972, when they moved to Los Angeles. He began his journalism career working on the Sunset High School newspaper in Beaverton, Oregon. While journalism was his primary focus, this was also the period of time in which he developed his penchant for humor and satire. He graduated from Sunset High in 1978.
Sacco earned his B.A. in journalism from the University of Oregon in 1981 in three years. He was greatly frustrated with the journalist work that he found at the time, later saying, "[I couldn't find] a job writing very hard-hitting, interesting pieces that would really make some sort of difference." After being briefly employed by the journal of the National Notary Association, a job which he found "exceedingly, exceedingly boring," and several factories, he returned to Malta, his journalist hopes forgotten. "...I sort of decided to forget it and just go the other route, which was basically take my hobby, which has been cartooning, and see if I could make a living out of that," he later told the BBC.
He began working for a local publisher writing guidebooks. Returning to his fondness for comics, he wrote a Maltese romance comic named Imħabba Vera ("True Love"), one of the first art-comics in the Maltese language. "Because Malta has no history of comics, comics weren't considered something for kids," he told Village Voice. "In one case, for example, the girl got pregnant and she went to Holland for an abortion. Malta is a Catholic country where not even divorce is allowed. It was unusual, but it's not like anyone raised a stink about it, because they had no way of judging whether this was appropriate material for comics or not."
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 another satire: the comic Centrifugal Bumble-Puppy, a name he took from an overly-complicated children's toy in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.
But Sacco was more interested in travelling. In 1988, he left the U.S. again to travel across Europe, a trip which he chronicled in his autobiographical comic Yahoo. The trip lead him towards the ongoing Gulf War (his obsession with which he talks about in Yahoo #2), and in 1991 he found himself nearby to research the work he would eventually publish as Palestine.
The Gulf War segment of Yahoo drew Sacco into a study of Middle Eastern politics, and he traveled to Israel and the Palestinian territories to research his first long work. Palestine was a collection of short and long pieces, some depicting Sacco's travels and encounters with Palestinians (and several Israelis), and some dramatizing the stories he was told. It was serialized as a comic book from 1993 to 2001 and then published in several collections, the first of which won an American Book Award in 1996.
Sacco next travelled to Sarajevo and Goražde near the end of the Bosnian War, and produced a series of reports in the same style as Palestine: the comics Safe Area Goražde, The Fixer, and the stories collected in War's End; the financing for which was aided by his winning of the Guggenheim Fellowship in April 2001. Safe Area Goražde won the Eisner Award for Best Original Graphic Novel in 2001.
He has also contributed short pieces of graphic reportage to a variety of magazines, on subjects ranging from war crimes to blues, and is a frequent illustrator of Harvey Pekar's American Splendor. Sacco currently lives in Portland.
Sacco earned his B.A. in journalism from the University of Oregon in 1981 in three years. He was greatly frustrated with the journalist work that he found at the time, later saying, "[I couldn't find] a job writing very hard-hitting, interesting pieces that would really make some sort of difference." After being briefly employed by the journal of the National Notary Association, a job which he found "exceedingly, exceedingly boring," and several factories, he returned to Malta, his journalist hopes forgotten. "...I sort of decided to forget it and just go the other route, which was basically take my hobby, which has been cartooning, and see if I could make a living out of that," he later told the BBC.
He began working for a local publisher writing guidebooks. Returning to his fondness for comics, he wrote a Maltese romance comic named Imħabba Vera ("True Love"), one of the first art-comics in the Maltese language. "Because Malta has no history of comics, comics weren't considered something for kids," he told Village Voice. "In one case, for example, the girl got pregnant and she went to Holland for an abortion. Malta is a Catholic country where not even divorce is allowed. It was unusual, but it's not like anyone raised a stink about it, because they had no way of judging whether this was appropriate material for comics or not."
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 another satire: the comic Centrifugal Bumble-Puppy, a name he took from an overly-complicated children's toy in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.
But Sacco was more interested in travelling. In 1988, he left the U.S. again to travel across Europe, a trip which he chronicled in his autobiographical comic Yahoo. The trip lead him towards the ongoing Gulf War (his obsession with which he talks about in Yahoo #2), and in 1991 he found himself nearby to research the work he would eventually publish as Palestine.
The Gulf War segment of Yahoo drew Sacco into a study of Middle Eastern politics, and he traveled to Israel and the Palestinian territories to research his first long work. Palestine was a collection of short and long pieces, some depicting Sacco's travels and encounters with Palestinians (and several Israelis), and some dramatizing the stories he was told. It was serialized as a comic book from 1993 to 2001 and then published in several collections, the first of which won an American Book Award in 1996.
Sacco next travelled to Sarajevo and Goražde near the end of the Bosnian War, and produced a series of reports in the same style as Palestine: the comics Safe Area Goražde, The Fixer, and the stories collected in War's End; the financing for which was aided by his winning of the Guggenheim Fellowship in April 2001. Safe Area Goražde won the Eisner Award for Best Original Graphic Novel in 2001.
He has also contributed short pieces of graphic reportage to a variety of magazines, on subjects ranging from war crimes to blues, and is a frequent illustrator of Harvey Pekar's American Splendor. Sacco currently lives in Portland.
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July 28, 2015
3 stories from Sacco that are from the end of the Bosnian conflict/war/genocide. The most complete story, with good background on the history and politics, is Safe Area Gorazde, so if you are interested in Sacco's comics journalism on this war, start there. These are stories that are sort of a coda that also help us get some insight into the complicated nature of journalism i such situations. The three stories are "The Fixer," about Neven, who is fascinating and almost completely unreliable. He's being paid by Sacco for information and many tell Sacco he is unreliable, a liar. In Gorazde Sacco lives with and befriends Muslims; in Sarajevo he mangoes to connect to Neven, a criminal, who fought for one of the most criminal Serb butchers. Who can know what really happened? Yet we know there was genocide; but who can we trust for the facts.
In Sacco's second story, "Soba," we get a similarly untrustworthy yet interesting solider/artist musician, and in the third, "Christmas with Karadzik" we read of Sacco actually going to church with and interviewing Karadzik, one of the clear monsters of the campaign. The latter two stories were also part of a book, War's End. The three of them do not give us a sense of history; except insofar as they tell us of the complicated nature if fact-gathering. Sacco is honest in identifying the ways he is compromised or potentially compromised in the process. Yet his stories reveal a messy picture of the end of a war from the perspective of a comics journalist talking with war profiteers, hapless citizens, ex-soldiers, people made crazy by war. I really liked it, but it's not clear about "what happened." It's more of a meta account of accounting for what happens in any political conflict. But that's interesting, right? Sacco is amazing.
In Sacco's second story, "Soba," we get a similarly untrustworthy yet interesting solider/artist musician, and in the third, "Christmas with Karadzik" we read of Sacco actually going to church with and interviewing Karadzik, one of the clear monsters of the campaign. The latter two stories were also part of a book, War's End. The three of them do not give us a sense of history; except insofar as they tell us of the complicated nature if fact-gathering. Sacco is honest in identifying the ways he is compromised or potentially compromised in the process. Yet his stories reveal a messy picture of the end of a war from the perspective of a comics journalist talking with war profiteers, hapless citizens, ex-soldiers, people made crazy by war. I really liked it, but it's not clear about "what happened." It's more of a meta account of accounting for what happens in any political conflict. But that's interesting, right? Sacco is amazing.
February 23, 2014
While the stories aren't nearly as gripping or cohesive as those in Palestine, Safe Area Gorazde, or Footnotes, the Fixer still provides some great insights into the Serbian Aggression in Bosnia. I also thought the comics themselves were more experimental than his earlier works. I'm sad there aren't any other Sacco books left for me to read...
June 12, 2025
A welcome return to Sacco's Bosnian adventures, this time with a slightly more playful vibe. We spend a lot of time with Neven, a fixer for journalists who earlier in the war had a robust career as a soldier for one of the Sarajevan strongmen. The Fixer jumps around a lot in time, but still effectively relays an aspect of the war that wasn't covered in Safe Area Goradze. And the focus on a single human participant in the war reminds of us the ground-level consequences of conflict.
Two shorter stories accompany The Fixer, one starring another former soldier in the war and the other starring Sacco and some journalists as they hunt down an interview with a Bosnian war criminal. Both entertaining, but certainly less engaging than The Fixer.
Two shorter stories accompany The Fixer, one starring another former soldier in the war and the other starring Sacco and some journalists as they hunt down an interview with a Bosnian war criminal. Both entertaining, but certainly less engaging than The Fixer.
March 22, 2025
No pongo en duda el trabajo periodístico pero yo no lo he podido terminar, no aguanto tanta misoginia
September 25, 2017
¿Qué queda después de una guerra? Historias.
"Historias de Bosnia" (Planeta Cómic, 2016) es una recopilación de tres novelas gráficas de Joe Sacco: "El mediador", "Soba" y "Navidades con Karadzic". Las dos últimas forman parte de "El final de la guerra".
Tras la desintegración de Yugoslavia, se desencadenó un enfrentamiento civil y militar entre 1992 y 1995, dejando un aproximado de cien mil víctimas y cerca de dos millones de desplazados. Esta compilación intenta describir la guerra a través de las historias de tres personajes que se involucraron en ella.
Ahora debo leer "Gorazde" y "Palestina". Luego buscaré "Días de destrucción, días de revuelta". ¡A leer!
"Historias de Bosnia" (Planeta Cómic, 2016) es una recopilación de tres novelas gráficas de Joe Sacco: "El mediador", "Soba" y "Navidades con Karadzic". Las dos últimas forman parte de "El final de la guerra".
Tras la desintegración de Yugoslavia, se desencadenó un enfrentamiento civil y militar entre 1992 y 1995, dejando un aproximado de cien mil víctimas y cerca de dos millones de desplazados. Esta compilación intenta describir la guerra a través de las historias de tres personajes que se involucraron en ella.
Ahora debo leer "Gorazde" y "Palestina". Luego buscaré "Días de destrucción, días de revuelta". ¡A leer!
June 11, 2018
Dibujos espectaculares y buenas historias; nuevas perspectivas de un tema de siempre, la guerra. No cansa ni amarga, ni tampoco trivializa o simplifica; no pontifica ni moraliza. Muestra. Y con eso cuenta mucho. Me gustó harto el libro... ¡y me regalaron un ejemplar!
December 11, 2018
The first time I read this book, I found it hard to stay connected to the characters. Of course, this is not entirely the book's fault. I feel like you need to be more familiar with the situation in Bosnia to really be able to understand the significance of many things going on in the story. Also, you never actually step directly into the heads of the characters. You are led through the story by a narrator who is more or less reliable.
This is not the kind of story I usually enjoy reading, nor is it really the kind of art style I am drawn to, but the second time I read the book, I found it way easier to understand and I appreciated the characters, the storytelling and the illustrations much more.
It is a very unique graphic novel. I don't think there is much else like it. Even though I found it hard to connect to Neven in The Fixer, the storytelling feels like that of a movie and the panel sequences are very cinematographic. The narrator's voice is also so perfect. It feels like it is actually hovering over your head and guiding you through the story as you watch it visually unfold before your eyes. Not to mention the vibe of every scene is captured so accurately and the detail in the drawings is impeccable.
I did find that the characters had very oddly drawn faces that were almost strange and unsettling at times. But you can definitely see the amount of time and effort put into each panel to add texture and richness to the story.
My favourite line out of these three stories is the one from Soba:
"You know how I got into mines?
After a friend of mine was trying to deactivate a cluster bomb.
He lost his hands.
His face.
His eyes.
I'm a little bored.
I have to continue with my studies, but when I open a book, I look through the page.
I think I might dye my hair blue."
It just captures his state of mind and everything he has been through so well.
This is not the kind of story I usually enjoy reading, nor is it really the kind of art style I am drawn to, but the second time I read the book, I found it way easier to understand and I appreciated the characters, the storytelling and the illustrations much more.
It is a very unique graphic novel. I don't think there is much else like it. Even though I found it hard to connect to Neven in The Fixer, the storytelling feels like that of a movie and the panel sequences are very cinematographic. The narrator's voice is also so perfect. It feels like it is actually hovering over your head and guiding you through the story as you watch it visually unfold before your eyes. Not to mention the vibe of every scene is captured so accurately and the detail in the drawings is impeccable.
I did find that the characters had very oddly drawn faces that were almost strange and unsettling at times. But you can definitely see the amount of time and effort put into each panel to add texture and richness to the story.
My favourite line out of these three stories is the one from Soba:
"You know how I got into mines?
After a friend of mine was trying to deactivate a cluster bomb.
He lost his hands.
His face.
His eyes.
I'm a little bored.
I have to continue with my studies, but when I open a book, I look through the page.
I think I might dye my hair blue."
It just captures his state of mind and everything he has been through so well.
January 11, 2025
Hay veces que no tienes claro si un libro no acaba de gustarte por el hacer de su autor o por la historia que relata. Una guerra, contada desde dentro, no es plato de buen gusto. Eso está claro.
En otras ocasiones es la antipatía que te genera algún personaje la que te pone en contra de la obra completa.
Si hablamos de una novela gráfica suma además el estilo artístico del dibujante y su pericia (o ausencia de ella) para animar el relato.
En “Historias de Bosnia” se ha dado de todo un poco: tres historias de la guerra en boca de protagonistas fanfarrones y embrutecidos, hechos históricos fuera de toda humanidad y un dibujo en blanco y negro áspero y descaradamente sexista. Y sin embargo, hay una brisa de empatía con ese feísmo que recorre la novela vinculándote a ella. La de ser consciente que todo juicio hecho desde la cómoda posición de un sofá es mezquino, egoísta y cobarde. ¿Cómo voy a tener derecho alguno de juzgar a quien ha vivido una guerra? ¿Cómo hacerlo sin dejar de pensar en lo miserable que seguramente sería yo?
Al menos, conozcamos lo sucedido para hacer algo por evitar que siga sucediendo. O, si no actuamos, para callar con la vergüenza de quien se sabe carente del derecho de juicio.
En otras ocasiones es la antipatía que te genera algún personaje la que te pone en contra de la obra completa.
Si hablamos de una novela gráfica suma además el estilo artístico del dibujante y su pericia (o ausencia de ella) para animar el relato.
En “Historias de Bosnia” se ha dado de todo un poco: tres historias de la guerra en boca de protagonistas fanfarrones y embrutecidos, hechos históricos fuera de toda humanidad y un dibujo en blanco y negro áspero y descaradamente sexista. Y sin embargo, hay una brisa de empatía con ese feísmo que recorre la novela vinculándote a ella. La de ser consciente que todo juicio hecho desde la cómoda posición de un sofá es mezquino, egoísta y cobarde. ¿Cómo voy a tener derecho alguno de juzgar a quien ha vivido una guerra? ¿Cómo hacerlo sin dejar de pensar en lo miserable que seguramente sería yo?
Al menos, conozcamos lo sucedido para hacer algo por evitar que siga sucediendo. O, si no actuamos, para callar con la vergüenza de quien se sabe carente del derecho de juicio.
June 19, 2023
I have read several books, both fiction and NF, about the horrifying Bosnian War 1992-96, and I still feel like I am reading a dystopian novel. A terribly disturbing one. I have also read Sacco’s excellent graphic novel, Safe Area Gorzade, which covers the five months he spent in Bosnia, looking at the awful aftermath. In The Fixer, Sacco returns to Bosnia focusing on various shady characters, who share stories about their experiences during the war. The text is well-written and the illustrations are excellent.
January 7, 2023
This was a Secret Santa present from my Bookclub. It’s been sitting on my pile of books to read for a while so I’m glad to have finally delved into it.
Whilst the art is as impressive, gripping and brimming with emotional pull, these stories felt more like anecdotes lacking the depth of insight and overview that Palestine, the only other book I have read of his.
It is still a worthwhile read though I have the impression that Safe Area Gorazade maybe be the better starting point.
Enjoy!
Whilst the art is as impressive, gripping and brimming with emotional pull, these stories felt more like anecdotes lacking the depth of insight and overview that Palestine, the only other book I have read of his.
It is still a worthwhile read though I have the impression that Safe Area Gorazade maybe be the better starting point.
Enjoy!
February 24, 2023
I always have trouble reading Sacco, he references so many real life events and treaties that it makes my head spin. It feels like you need to attend a class to understand any context of what he writes about. That being said, he's pretty damn good at making comics. No matter how confused I am, he nails the emotional moments that make me care about his stories.
August 24, 2022
Such a great piece of journalism. Sacco really brings the character of Neven to life. You get a real sense of who this person is. Wartime Sarajevo is also quite vivid. I've read Sacco's stuff before. Fantastic.
October 24, 2022
me ha gustado mucho el cómic, sus personajes, la estructura, y el ver un poco como fue esta terrible guerra. es verdad que a veces me costaba seguir un poco la historia porque no conozco demasiado sobre la guerra y sus personajes, pero aún así lo he disfrutado
January 25, 2018
Superbe! J'ai adoré les profils de ces personnages hors du commun en temps de guerre à Sarajevo.
April 16, 2020
Es Joe Sacco.
September 4, 2020
There’s three stories in this collection. I loved ‘The Fixer’, found ‘Sabo’ pretty unlikeable and ‘Christmas with Karadzik’ a little short and boring. Worth reading for The Fixer alone!
October 4, 2020
The Last story in this collection wasn't as strong as the first two but goddamn this was good
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September 9, 2025
Minor Joe Sacco is still Joe Sacco! Good stuff
August 19, 2023
Malta’da doğmuş, ödüllü bir karikatürist, gazeteci ve yazar olan Joe Sacco’nun 1992-1996 yılları arasında yaşanan Sarajevo savaşı sırasında Bosna’da yaşadıklarını resmettiği ve oradaki izlenimlerini anlattığı bu güzel kitabı okumanızı tavsiye ederim. Çizgi romanlara bakış açınızı değiştireceğine eminim. Bir gazeteci gözüyle hem olaylara objektif bakabilmiş hem de deneyimlediklerini okuyucularının hissetmesini sağlamış. Muhteşem illüstrasyonları defalarca inceleyeceğiniz bu kitapta savaş zamanında yaşanan evleri, hayatları ve depresif insanları bir nebze de olsa görme (hayal etme) şansınız olacak. Joe Sacco’nun Türkiye hakkında da bir çizgi roman kitabı yazmasını çok isterdim. Her kitapseverin kütüphanesinde olması gereken kitaplardan biri 👍🏾
March 20, 2011
Really cool way to learn about the Sarajevo conflict which I only read about in Weekly Reader magazines in fourth grade. I still don't really know everything. It could have really helped to know everything in the context of every day living, but this was a great window into the past.
I borrowed the book from Alex and need to return it now. I became comfortable owning it for a while and wanted to bend the pages back ("I feel like I know her, but sometimes my arms bend back." --Laura Palmer), but it's time to give it up. I'll want to read it again sometime so next time I'm at a comic book store I might look it up.
The Fixer is definitely the best story, but Christmas With Karadzic was also very interestingly put together.
I might lend this out to some friends and share the knowledge before returning it. Bobby might want to read it.
I borrowed the book from Alex and need to return it now. I became comfortable owning it for a while and wanted to bend the pages back ("I feel like I know her, but sometimes my arms bend back." --Laura Palmer), but it's time to give it up. I'll want to read it again sometime so next time I'm at a comic book store I might look it up.
The Fixer is definitely the best story, but Christmas With Karadzic was also very interestingly put together.
I might lend this out to some friends and share the knowledge before returning it. Bobby might want to read it.
August 30, 2014
This volume collects three more stories from Joe Sacco about the Bosnian war. Each piece (originally published separately) focuses on one person, but captures many other individual stories and group experiences along the way. Sacco includes himself in the story showing what it takes to collect these personal stories. We see the freedom of a journalist in areas that are locked down. We see a little bit of the weird economics of developing sources and finding the stories that will be told to people in other parts of the world. But the heart of the each section is the personal stories of survivors. Dark and powerful.
Two things that caught my eye in the collection: Sacco's portrayal of smoke (cigarette, gun, bomb, etc.) and the representation of head-banging in the second story. These are just simple details that help convey the stories more effectively.
Two things that caught my eye in the collection: Sacco's portrayal of smoke (cigarette, gun, bomb, etc.) and the representation of head-banging in the second story. These are just simple details that help convey the stories more effectively.
January 30, 2012
I really hate to give this book only two stars, because I think it's an area of the world (Bosnia) about which I don't know much and I hate to admit that the complexity of the conflict makes it hard to stay interested. But that's the truth, unfortunately.
I think Sacco knows this on some level, which is why he uses Neven, a fixer who is an unreliable narrator, Soba, a poet/soldier, and Radovan Karadzic, a war criminal that Sacco and his friends track down. And despite these real-life, larger-than-life characters, I'm still not sure what happened.
I think I had a similar reaction to Safe Area Gorazde, but I'll have to check my old review.
I think Sacco knows this on some level, which is why he uses Neven, a fixer who is an unreliable narrator, Soba, a poet/soldier, and Radovan Karadzic, a war criminal that Sacco and his friends track down. And despite these real-life, larger-than-life characters, I'm still not sure what happened.
I think I had a similar reaction to Safe Area Gorazde, but I'll have to check my old review.
December 3, 2010
Sacco is a Portland native who started out (as most cartoonists do?) as a dorky outsider, went to journalism school at U of O in the late 70's, and then traveled around Europe and points distant selling cartoons and doing poster art. His book Safe Area Gorazde about a U.N. designated Muslim "safe area" isolated and surrounded by Serbian forces in the mid-90's is cinematic and powerful. In the Fixer he uses money from some kind of Genius Grant to go back to Sarajevo and get more personal stories of the war.
November 20, 2012
A great, albeit sparse glimpse of the humanistic effects of the Bosnian conflict. Both the title story and Shoba portray characters drastically changed by the relentless calls of war. To many, the effects of the conflict that rose between Serbs and Muslim nationalists come off as shallowly idealistic, but Sacco does well to display people that were completely effected, their lives rerouted from a call to arms, and as a cease fire slowly bubbled forth years later,left these people to continue living a life remotely unlike before arms arose.
January 31, 2013
"Sacco is one of the most astute war-zone correspondents working today" --Rolling Stone
"A searing and amusing look at the motley collection of reporters, war profiteers, criminals, soldiers and hapless civilians trapped in war zone." --New York Times
"Sacco doesn't try to lay claim to the truth. He's simply telling one man's story, and it makes for an excellent book." --Washington Post
"Sacco demonstrates that the narrative arts, including comics, can gather up complicated social truths with a gradual patience that often eludes the camera." --Boston Globe
"A searing and amusing look at the motley collection of reporters, war profiteers, criminals, soldiers and hapless civilians trapped in war zone." --New York Times
"Sacco doesn't try to lay claim to the truth. He's simply telling one man's story, and it makes for an excellent book." --Washington Post
"Sacco demonstrates that the narrative arts, including comics, can gather up complicated social truths with a gradual patience that often eludes the camera." --Boston Globe
November 5, 2010
This was a pretty good read. I sort of wish the author had left himself out of it - turning everything into memoir seems to be the obsession of graphic novelists - why? There are wonderful stories from inside the siege of sarajevo here. The Illustrations are great and the characters very fresh. But the author does this great job of making himself look like a real sucker, as if he plans to undo that in the end, but he never does. Who wants to read about a sucker?
December 31, 2013
It's pretty hard to say anything about Joe Sacco that hasn't already been said. This volume of his work hits like a black market boxer, and while occasionally I find his drawing style to be too cartoony given his subject matter, in general I think it serves to illuminate how awful and improbable and ridiculous his characters are. Hard to recommend well; but a strong example of using sequential art to tell history or biography.
December 31, 2013
The fact that I love Sacco's works doesn't mean I'm giving him 5 stars for each and every book of his. This book is a post-war stories from Saravejo on Bosnia War 1992-1995. The characters are no doubt real people and their struggle with everyday life was challenging. I like Sacco's comic style of drawing, together with his writings expressing the characters. It is rough, original and real. Since the characters are of real people, you would never can guess the end for them all.
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