Snag Sarajevo Constructed By Joe Sacco Expressed As Softcover

eine dunkle Episode der europäischer Geschichte, der Bosnienkrieg, Anhand dreier ReportageComics zeichnet Joe Sacco ein vielschichtiges Bild von Sarajevo am Ende des Bosnienkrieges:
Neven, Der Fixer, schlug sich vor dem Krieg als Waffenhändler und Bankräuber durch und diente als Waffenexperte und Scharfschütze in der jugoslawischen Armee, ehe er in Sarajevo als Guide für Journalisten arbeitet.
Dank Nevens Hilfe gelingt es Sacco, Opfer und Täter des Krieges zu interviewen,
Soba hingegen ist ein depressiver Maler und Musiker, dessen Tätigkeit als Tretminenleger an der Front um Sarajevo ihn in seinen Träumen verfolgt und der nun orientierungslos durch die Trümmer seines Lebens irrt.
Er führt Sacco kurz vor Kriegsendedurch die Nachtclubs und Bars von Sarajevo, wo der ComicJournalist auf eine desillusionierte Generation kriegsversehrter Jugendlicher stößt.

In Weihnachten mit Karadzic versucht Joe Sacco zusammen mit einem Radioreporter, den heute als Kriegsverbrecher angeklagten Radovan Karadzic vor ein Mikrophon zu bekommen, Nach einer Odyssee durch den serbischen Teil Bosniens

begegnen die beiden ihm schließlich ausgerechnet vor einer Kirche, Man muss sich schon sehr gut mit der KriegsGeschichte von Sarajevo aber auch Bosnien auskennen, um die Lektüre zu verstehen, Joe Sacco zeichnet intensiv und eindringlich, aber leider auch wieder nur aus einer rein männlichen Perspektive, Auf einer Seite sieht man immerhin am unteren Bildrand die beiden Füße einer offensichtlich auf dem Bauch liegenden toten Frau, deren Unterhose um die Knöchel gewickelt sind.
Das ist das sehr ärgerliche an solchen Kriegsaufzeichnungen, Man nimmt immer nur die Soldaten und Kämpfer und Wiederständler etc, wahr, aber niemals die Frauen, die in jedem Krieg aufgerieben werden und das dann auch noch als Schande gilt die, die verschont werden, alle anderen mitversorgen und danach noch das Land wieder aufbauen.
Wo gibt es eigentlich Mahnmale und Denkmäler für diese Frauen Neben den Mahnmalen und Denkmälern von gefallenen Soldaten Wohl kaum, Ring side view of the strife Joe sacco é incrível! Joe Sacco was born in Malta on October,, At the age of one, he moved with his family to Australia, where he spent his childhood until, 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, Sacco earned his B. A. in journalism from the University of Oregon inin three years, He was greatly frustrated with the journalist work that he found at the time, later saying, I couldnt find a job writing very hard hitting, interesting pieces that would really make some sort of difference.
Afte Joe Sacco was born in Malta on October,, At the age of one, he moved with his family to Australia, where he spent his childhood until, 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, Sacco earned his B. A. in journalism from the University of Oregon inin 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, bySacco 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 interested in travelling, In, 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, and inhe 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 fromtoand then published in several collections, the first of which won an American Book Award in.
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.
Safe Area Goražde won the Eisner Award for Best Original Graphic Novel in, 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, sitelink.