War's End Explained
War's End: Profiles From Bosnia |
Publisher: | Drawn & Quarterly |
Date: | 2005 |
Issues: | 1 |
Main Char Team: | Joe Sacco Radovan Karadžić Šoba |
Single Creator: | y |
Creator: | Joe Sacco |
Pages: | 65 |
Origisbn: | 1-896597-92-0 |
War's End: Profiles From Bosnia is a journalistic comic about the Bosnian War created by Joe Sacco and published by Drawn & Quarterly in 2005. 65 pages in length,[1] it contains two stories:
- "Christmas with Karadzic", about tracking down and meeting the Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić. The story was drawn in the period May-Fall 1996 and was originally published in the Fantagraphics anthology Zero Zero, issue #15 (March 1997).
- "Šoba", about a contemporary artist from Sarajevo, Nebojsa Seric (i.e., Šoba), who was at the time a student at the Art Academy Sarajevo and a member of a local cult band; he was drafted into the army of Bosnia and Herzegovina because of the Siege of Sarajevo. The story was drawn in the period June-December 1997 and was originally published in Stories from Bosnia: Šoba (Drawn & Quarterly, February 1998). (As of 2006, Šoba was living and working in New York City.)[2]
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Notes and References
- News: The Art of War . Daniel . Raeburn. . August 4, 2005.
- Web site: Read Yourself RAW . Profile: Joe Sacco . April 25, 2006 . https://web.archive.org/web/20060414200233/http://www.readyourselfraw.com/profiles/sacco/profile_sacco.htm . April 14, 2006 .