· Safe Area Gorazde is Sacco’s magnum opus and with it he is poised too become “Joe Sacco is a unique figure in modern comics: there is no one else who. Safe Area Goražde has ratings and reviews. Joe Sacco spent five months in war ravaged Bosnia . Safe Area Gorazde HC ( Fantagraphics) The War in Eastern Bosnia comic books · More than any sort of anger or hatred, that shock dominates the anecdotes that drive Safe Area Gorazde. Watching Bosnian-taped battle footage one moment, Sacco is surprised to see it .
In his "Safe Area Gorazde" Joe Sacco describes his experience visiting a Muslim enclave during the Bosnian War of Tragically, this work is based on testimonies of residents of Gorazde, allegedly a UN-protected area where Bosnian Muslims are able to take refuge to avoid the ethnic cleansing perpetrated by the Serbian army. 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. Christopher Hitchens () is the author of God Is Not Great, Hitch, and Why Orwell Matters. Safe Area Goražde is a non-fiction comic about the war in Bosnia between and As the title indicates, Sacco specifically focuses on the experiences of the people of Goražde, a supposedly UN-protected town where the Muslim population of Bosnia could take refuge to avoid the ethnic cleansing being undertaken by the Bosnian Serbian army.
Before Joe Sacco crafted his two major works of "cartoon journalism," Palestine and Safe Area Gorazde, he created a number of shorter pieces, ranging from one-page gags to page "graphic novelettes." This massive book finally collects the entirety of Sacco's earlier. Praised by The New York Times, Brill's Content and Publishers Weekly, Safe Area Gorazde is the long-awaited and highly sought after page look at war in the former Yugoslavia. Sacco (the critically-acclaimed author of Palestine) spent five months in Bosnia in , immersing himself in the human side of life during wartime, researching stories that are rarely found in conventional news coverage. Safe Area Gorazde is not a linear narrative, but rather a mosaic of interlocking experiences and testimonies. Sacco lets the inhabitants of Gorazde share their pain, good humor, their warm camaraderie and their selfish weaknesses. Gorazde welcomed Sacco because he opened himself to them. He ate, drank and partied with them.
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