Safe Area Gorazde The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995 [Paperback]

Praised by[Demonstrates] how brilliantly comics can serve as reportage.Graphic in every sense of the term, Saccos account of everydaylife in a city under siege puts one of the twentieth centurys leastunderstood catastrophes in perspective; its the best argument aroundfor 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.Published soon after the conflict that it documents,The winner of the 2001 Eisner Award for Best New Graphic Album. Sacco spent five months in Bosnia in 1996, immersing himself in thehuman side of life during wartime, researching stories that are rarelyfound in conventional news coverage, emerging with this astonishingfirst-person account.