Safe Area Goražde gets four stars because it covers a war that doesn't get enough attention. It earns its four stars for giving voice to many who would not have otherwise been heard. It gets four stars for not shying away from the horror of the war. And it gets four stars for trying to educate a peo...
Slow going, not a beach read, but the shadowy landscapes and historical background are astonishing. It´s a nice balance of mundane daily life with a select few war stories from individual Bosnians. You´re left with the sense that war stories or the war were Joe Sacco´s main connection to the people ...
Nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.What do you do with this book? You're tempted to call it a young adult book, just because it's a bit obvious for a grown-up. With the asylum metaphor, and the Combine, and just...
Joe Sacco delivers a scathing piece of comic-journalism with [b:Palestine|769712|Palestine|Joe Sacco|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1327884409s/769712.jpg|755771]. The Arab side of the story is fully ignored by the Western media since, well, the beginning of the conflict.The treatment inflicted upon t...
This is an interesting book about Pine Ridge, Indian Country; Camden, NJ; a mining town; farm laboring wage slaves; and Occupy Wall Street. The best parts are the personal stories, Studs Terkel-style, which are illustrated into comic book panels. They show the incredible dignity and humor that peopl...
A brilliantly funny and scathing critique of behaviorism, Cuckoo is filled with memorable characters that remind me of the personalities I met in Catch 22, which I also enjoyed wholeheartedly. Kesey and Heller are both able to turn nightmarish scenarios into palaces of absurdity that enable you to d...
Sacco's sardonic voice put me off at first but the relentless stories are hard to ignore, and the last story (A Boy in the Rain) is just superb. It really manages to synthesize an unsythesizable (not a word) situation. No wonder that Sacco can only do it when he's not in the thick of refugee camps. ...
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