Safe Area Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995
“[Demonstrates] how brilliantly comics can serve as reportage.” (The New York Times)“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.” (GQ)“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.” (Utne Reader)“Sacco's detailed, personal reporting captures his subject matter more convincingly than photographs or Christiane Amanpour.” (Time)“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 -Graphic Novel Reporter)“Published soon after the conflict that it documents,Safe Area Gorazdeis an intense reading experience and an active call for the condemnation of tribal and international leaders who put politics ahead of humanity.” (Suzette Chan -Sequential Tart)“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 -Only the Cinema)