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Safe Area Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995 (original 2000; edition 2002)

by Joe Sacco (Author)

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Joe Sacco's work of "comic journalism" plus the author's illustrated essay of how the project came together. Includes the author's photos and the comic book pages drawn from them and an interview with the author.
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Title:Safe Area Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995
Authors:Joe Sacco (Author)
Info:Fantagraphics (2002), 240 pages
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Safe Area Goražde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995 by Joe Sacco (2000)

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Art Spiegelman, the author of Maus, once said "In a world where Photoshop has outed the photograph to be a liar, one can now allow artists to return to their original function — as reporters." And that’s what Joe Sacco is: an artist and a reporter. Joe Sacco spent five months in late 1994 and early 1995 in Bosnia interviewing people who’d survived the Bosnian War. The result was this book, Safe Area Gorazde, which is basically a written and visual documentation of what he experienced and learned there. If you don’t know, Gorazde is a town in eastern Bosnia that was a UN-designated “safe area” during the Bosnian War. But, as you’ll learn from this book, the Gorazde was anything but safe.

I think you should read this book if you’re interested in history and human nature. But this book is more than a history lesson, it’s a way to meet real people who survived a great human rights tragedy and to see the destruction wrought by the conflict.
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  LibrarianDest | Jan 3, 2024 |
Tan buena como Palestina ( )
  Alvaritogn | Jul 1, 2022 |
Wow. Just wow. This was amazing, and is up there with Maus as one of the best graphic novels I've read. ( )
  Enno23 | Aug 15, 2021 |
Very informative. So glad it was in B&W. Journalist spending time with the civilians in one of the "safe" areas of Bosnia. It was difficult to read because war is so brutal. It left me feeling despair at how inhumane humankind can behave. ( )
  AChild | Apr 7, 2021 |
This journalistic graphic novel was a revelation to me, that the medium could (and should) be used this way. Joe Sacco stayed in the supposed 'safe area Gorazde' and interviewed the inhabitants and survivors. This book gave me a better picture of the Yugoslavian war than I had known and included some truly horrific graphics -- all the worse because they were real. ( )
  questbird | Jan 30, 2021 |
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Author nameRoleType of authorWork?Status
Joe Saccoprimary authorall editionscalculated
Thompson, KimEditorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Brolli, DanieleTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Dries, Sidonie Van denTraductionsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Groth, GaryInterviewersecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Hitchens, ChristopherIntroductionsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Rodriguez, RobertoTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Schuit, RobertTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Schuler, ChristophTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Veiga, FranciscoForewordsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed

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This book is dedicated to the town of Gorazde, where I spent some of my happiest moments.
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We were sitting in the Alkatraz, "backs to the wall Doc Holliday style" as Edin liked to say, waiting for the end of the war ...
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The Special edition, 2011, has 34 page intro by Sacco: 'Some reflections on Bosnia, Sarajevo, and Gorazde' and a 24 p. interview of Sacco by Gary Groth, and a Bibliography.
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Joe Sacco's work of "comic journalism" plus the author's illustrated essay of how the project came together. Includes the author's photos and the comic book pages drawn from them and an interview with the author.

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