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...Best Comic(s) of 2000 - a tie: "Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth," by Chris Ware "Safe Area Gorazde," by Joe Sacco These two very different books are both examples of striving for greatness in the comics genre. "Jimmy Corrigan" uses the fictional story of a not-so-bright, aging man to explore themes of family and modern anxiety with dark humor. Chris Ware has the best design sense in comics, using everything from schematic diagrams to 1930s lettering, all at the service of the story and characters. "Safe Area Gorazde" brings journalism and comics together in an unforgettable portrait...
...Safe Area Gorazde" ($28.95), by Joe Sacco, is a hardback published by Fantagraphics Books, and is available at bookstores and the Fantagraphics website...
...Dalkon collection joins a large group of historical sources at Langdell, including the papers of Supreme Court justices Oliver Wendell Holmes, Class of 1861, Felix Frankfurter, the letters of Sacco and Vanzetti and documents from the Nuremberg war trials...
...comic Palestine (which won an American Book Award), Sacco is able to tell a balanced story that never gets sentimental. With a journalism degree from the University of Oregon, Sacco has strong reporting skills that he meshes with his longtime love of drawing. "Maybe I'm a B journalist," he says. "But I'm a really good cartoonist who does journalism." He spent his 20s bouncing around a slew of frustrating writing and copy-editing jobs, including a particularly bad one with a newsletter for the Notary Association. There's not a lot of breaking news in the world...
That training caused Sacco to write about politics instead of how he hates his parents, the milieu of most underground comic book artists. "A lot of them spent their high school years feeling alone and alienated. I had pretty good teen years," he says, while sitting in a Manhattan restaurant, eating what he keeps referring to as "adult food" ("These greens are a little bitter"). "I was short and all, but I wasn't picked on." Now, Sacco, still boyish looking, says he has abandoned most of his belongings and left Portland, Ore., for New York City. He's sleeping...