New Releases by Joe Sacco

Previously uncollected stories from the creator of Palestine and Safe Area Goradze. The centrepiece of the book is In the Company of Long Hair, the early 90s graphic novelette Sacco created on the subject of his raucous European tour with the punk band the Miracle Workers. It appears here in an expanded version with an added 15-page section of his original sketches and notes from the time and a bound-in CD featuring an excerpt from the Miracle Workers'' live show of the time - including a blasting version of the Iggy Pop classic I Got a Right.

War cartoonist Sacco visits the Bosnian conflict to uncover the stories that are often ignored or uncovered by traditional media and gives the reader an inside peek at the darkly humorous news process.

Joe Sacco ya es ampliamente conocido por sus anteriores obras, Gorazde: Zona Protegida y Palestina: En la Franja de Gaza, ambos publicadas en la Colección Trazado de Planeta DeAgostini en las que el autor mezcla hábilmente el reportaje periodístico con la forma narrativa del cómic para dar un reflejo lo más fiel posible de situaciones conflictivas. En esta ocasión, Sacco se centra en un único personaje: Neven, un mediador capaz de conseguir contactos e informaciones interesantes para los periodistas. La historia, las historias de Neven, muchas veces desafían lo creíble y su persona se nos hace compleja y ambigua en más de un caso, pero la presencia de este tipo de personajes es inherente a las zonas de conflicto, e indispensable para los periodistas en busca de contactos e información. Un retrato magistral de otro aspecto de la guerra por el inigualable Joe Sacco, ganador de varios premios por su obra.

When bombs are falling and western journalism is the only game left in town "fixers" are the people who sell war correspondents the human tragedy and moral outrage that makes news editors happy. It’s dangerous, a little amoral and a lot desperate. Award-winning comix-journalist Joe Sacco goes behind the scene of war correspondence to reveal the anatomy of the big scoop. He begins by returning us to the dying days of Balkan conflict and introduces us to his own fixer; a man looking to squeeze the last bit of profit from Bosnia before the reconstruction begins. Thanks to a complex relationship with the fixer Joe discovers the crimes of opportunistic warlords and gangsters who run the countryside in times of war. But the west is interested in a different spin on the stories coming out of Bosnia. Almost ten years later, Joe meets up with his fixer and sees how the new Bosnian government has "dealt" with these criminals and Joe ponders who is holding the reins of power these days...

Before Joe Sacco crafted his two major works of ''cartoon journalism'', Palestine and Safe Area Gorazde, he created a number of shorter pieces, ranging from one-page gags to thirty-page ''graphic novelettes''. This book finally collects the enti

A graphic novel based on the author''s 1995-96 visits to Gorazde, one of the U.N.-created "safe areas" in Eastern Bosnia, showing the brutality and humanity that coexisted there during the Bosnian War of 1992-95.