Joe Sacco Knihy

Bezpečná zóna Goražde není příjemná kniha. Ukazuje a líčí to, co většina z nás nikdy nezažije, ukrutnosti a zvěrstva, která si většina z nás sotva dokáže představit. Ještě před pár lety si je nedokázali představit ani muslimští obyvatelé Goražde a přece k nim došlo. Saccovi se tu podařilo zachytit příběhy obětí války, které překračují rámec běžné deníkové žurnalistiky a jež by jinak jistě upadly do zapomnění. Bezpečná zóna Goražde však není jen válečnou kronikou, katalogem hrůz a odsouzením lhostejnosti mezinárodního společenství, ale i dojemným líčením lidské schopnosti přestát takřka jakékoli strádání.

Rafah, a town at the southernmost tip of the Gaza Strip, is a squalid place. Seemingly a footnote to a long history of killing, that day in Rafah - coldblooded massacre or dreadful mistake - reveals the competing truths that have come to define an intractable war. číst celé

The Dene have lived in the vast Mackenzie River Valley since time immemorial, by their account. To the Dene, the land owns them, not the other way around-it is central to their livelihood and their very way of being. But the subarctic Canadian Northwest Territories are also home to valuable natural resources, including oil, gas and diamonds. With mining came jobs and investment-but also road-building, pipelines and toxic waste, which scarred the landscape, and alcohol, drugs, and debt, which deformed a way of life. In Paying the Land, Joe Sacco travels the frozen North to reveal a people struggling with the ambiguous wages of development and the incalculable toll of a pitiless colonial lecacy. Against a vast and gorgeous landscape that dwarfs all human scale, Paying the land lends an ear to trappers and chiefs, activists and priests, telling a sweeping story about money and dependency, loss and culture, with stunning visual detail by one of the greatest comic's reporters alive.

In late l991 and early 1992, at the time of the first Intifada, Joe Sacco spent two months with the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, travelling and taking notes. Upon returning to the United States he started writing and drawing Palestine, which combines the techniques of eyewitness reportage with the medium of comic-book storytelling to explore this complex, emotionally weighty situation. He captures the heart of the Palestinian experience in image after unforgettable image, with great insight and remarkable humour.The nine-issue comics series won a l996 American Book Award. It is now published for the first time in one volume, befitting its status as one of the great classics of graphic non-fiction.

Když se válečný reportér Joe Sacco vrátil roku 2001 do Bosny, hledal snad jediného člověka, který byl ochoten otevřeně mluvit o šílenství, jemuž tato země několik let předtím propadla. Tímto člověkem byl válečný veterán Neven, kterému se říkalo „Šíbr“, protože za správnou cenu dokázal zahraničním novinářům v Sarajevu zařídit opravdu ledacos: výlet na frontu, kontakty na důležité lidi i na prostitutky. Jeho služeb využil roku 2001 i sám autor Joe Sacco a záhy mu došlo, že Nevenův příběh je mikrokosmem celého balkánského konfliktu. Šíbr vypráví o vzestupu polovojenských magnátů, díky jejichž fanatické odvaze nepodlehlo Sarajevo etnickým čistkám, ale kteří se nevyhnutelně nechali zkorumpovat mocí, krvežíznivostí a nacionalistickými bludy.

In late 1995 and early 1996, cartoonist/reporter Joe Sacco travelled four times to Gorazde, a UN-designated safe area during the Bosnian War, which had teetered on the brink of obliteration for three and a half years. Still surrounded by Bosnian Serb forces, the mainly Muslim people of Gorazde had endured heavy attacks and severe privation to hang on to their town while the rest of Eastern Bosnia was brutally 'cleansed' of its non-Serb population. But as much as SAFE AREA GORAZDE is an account of a terrible siege, it presents a snapshot of people who were slowly letting themselves believe that a war was ending and that they had survived. Since it was first published in 2000, SAFE AREA GORAZDE has been recognized as one of the absolute classics of graphic non-fiction. We are delighted to publish it in the UK for the first time, to stand beside Joe Sacco's other books on the Cape list - PALESTINE, THE FIXER and NOTES FROM A DEFEATIST.

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.

"A 24-foot-long black-and-white drawing printed on heavyweight accordian-fold paper and packaged in a deluxe hardcover slipcase. The set also includes a 16-page booklet featuring an essay about the first day of the Battle of the Somme by Adam Hochschild and original annotations to the drawing by Sacco himself."

In my view, that is part of its message' - from the preface by Joe SaccoOver the past decade, Joe Sacco has increasingly turned to short-form com-ics journalism to report from conflict zones around the world.

Named a Best Book of the Year by Amazon.com and the Washington PostThree years ago, Pulitzer Prize–winner Chris Hedges and award-winning cartoonist and journalist Joe Sacco set out to take a look at the sacrifice zones, those areas in America that have been offered up for exploitation in the name of profit, progress, and technological advancement. They wanted to show in words and drawings what life looks like in places where the marketplace rules without constraints, where human beings and the natural world are used and then discarded to maximize profit. Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt is the searing account of their travels.