![]() ![]() ![]() He's not a sympathetic character but he can be a poignant character. The book makes it clear that you can never trust Neven, you can never know what's really true. JS: He's an interesting character, and using him allowed me to tell the story of how journalists often have to rely on totally uncreditable people who have their own agendas. ![]() Neven was very much involved and I could tell his story as well. To defend the country it essentially turned into a warlord situation. When the war started there was no Bosnian army. Joe Sacco: I first met Neven in 1995 and thought he'd be good for a story about how civil society in Sarajevo broke down during the war. PW: Tell us why you returned to Bosnia and Sarajevo and about Neven, the "fixer." ![]() In The Fixer: A Story From Sarajevo (reviewed here), he returns to Sarajevo. Next came Safe Area Gorazde (2002), which documented the brutal victimization of Bosnian Muslims by Serb nationalists during the Yugoslavian conflict of the early 1990s. Sacco established his reputation as a serious journalist with Palestine (1994), a firsthand account-in-comics of Palestinian life under the Israeli occupation. ![]()
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