THE FIXER & OTHER STORIES by Joe Sacco

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The complete softcover collection of the Bosnian War stories from the author of Palestine and Footnotes in Gaza. The Fixer and Other Stories is a new softcover that collects Joe Sacco's landmark short stories on the Bosnian War that previously comprised the hardcover editions of The Fixer and War's End.

The Boston Globe's Jeet Heer writes:

Only the journalist's lens can capture the visual truth of modern war, art critic Robert Hughes told the (Toronto) Globe and Mail recently. "Modern art has practically nothing, or nothing of any value to say about war," he said, "because it doesn't record the horrors of it, and it just hasn't been able to deal with it."

Perhaps Hughes should have added some praise for the cartoonist's pen. For the last dozen years, Joe Sacco has traveled to some of the most dismal spots in the world, from makeshift Palestinian settlements in the West Bank to besieged Bosnian villages to Chechen refugee camps on the fringes of the former Soviet Union. Based on these travels, Sacco has produced a series of extraordinary long-form comic books that convey, with unusual attentiveness to the details of everyday life, the impact that war has on civilians.
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In THE FIXER & OTHER STORIES, cartoonist and journalist Joe Sacco recounts his experiences at the end of the brutal Bosnian War. In the lead story, Sacco introduces Neven, a charismatic man who makes a shady living for cash, cigarettes, food or alcohol by leading reporters through Bosnia's war-torn landscape. Sacco crossed paths with disparate figures from the Balkan conflict, from Radovan Karadzic, the notorious war criminal, to Soba, a young Sarajevan struggling to recover from the trauma of war and renew his creative ambitions. In this collection, which contains the preciously published hardcovers THE FIXER and WAR'S END, the acclaimed author of SAFE AREA GORAZDE uses his award-winning comics reportage to uncover the compelling and uncompromising war stories that do not make the evening news.

The Fixer & Other Stories is available starting at $8.00 from Death Ray Comics.