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07:44 pm
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Safe Area Gorazde
Before I start getting entirely drunk on Mojitos, I thought I'd share with you one of my favourite graphic novels.
Safe Area Gorazde was written and illustrated by journalist Joe Sacco after he spent four months embedded in eastern Bosnia between 94-95. Years back it was on our list of journalism related books to read in one of my uni classes.
Picking it up, I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. My two loves -- comics AND journalism -- in ONE? I think I had a nerdgasm. It was truly like something I had never seen before -- comics non-fiction (Well, then again, I'd read Maus the year before and even though it IS comics non-fiction, the people are mice/cats/frogs/pigs). I don't think I'd understood up until that point a story could be told by a journalist in this way.
Anyways, Safe Area Gorazde won an Eisner award in 2001. It's lengthy (230 pages!!!) but well worth it.
proteus_lives, wherever you are, being a fellow journo, I'm sure you'll appreciate this :-)
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Tags: creator: joe sacco
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