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...journalism. Any nonfiction report on the world around us needs some art, in the form of narrative or metaphor or linguistics, to bring life to mere facts. Concurrently any work of art worthy of the name will report something new (either in content or form) to the audience. Joe Sacco, intrepid cartoonist, has been snooping around the borderlands between these disciplines for several years. His first important series, "Palestine," (1995) about life in the holy land during the first Intefada, gave us something radically new: a comic book that was immediately relevant to the real world. His next project...
...Fixer" focuses on a foreign war correspondent necessity - the shady local who takes you to the hot spots, translates, and generally greases the wheels. Sacco's fixer is Neven, who he meets in a hotel lobby in 1995. At the time the Serb nationalist siege of the city was slowly lifting but sniping remained a terrifying constant. Sacco's greeting at the reception desk was to be shown a map and told, "This is the hotel. This is the front line. Don't ever walk here." Sacco needs Neven to introduce him to people with a story to tell. Neven...
...Having Fantagraphics shuttered or even compromised would be a disastrous blow to the medium. They have consistently published America's most important comix artists including Dan Clowes ("Eightball"), Chris Ware ("Jimmy Corrigan") and Joe Sacco ("Safe Area Gorazde.") I encourage TIME.comix readers to help "the cause" by buying books at the Fantagraphics website: www.fantagraphics.com...
...obesity epidemic grows, so does our revenue," says Lynne Sly, vice president of marketing at Kinetic Concepts. Rental rates are steep--up to $200 a day for a bed--but worth it. Before such products were available and widely covered by Medicare and private insurance, recalls Joe Sacco of Central Medical Supplies in Long Valley, N.J., "we'd see patients sleeping on top of plywood propped up on cinder blocks." CMS's sales of heavy-duty beds have doubled in the past year...
...known that one of the first books about the war in Afghanistan came from a cartoonist. Ted Rall's "To Afghanistan and Back" (NBM Publishing; 112pp.; $15.95) describes itself as a "graphic travelogue" but belongs in the milieu of war-torn foreign correspondence trail blazed by Joe Sacco's "Palestine" and "Safe Area Gorazde." Unlike those carefully rendered books, however, Rall's has come out quick and dirty, like a dispatch from the front lines of an on-going war. Rall, a syndicated political cartoonist whose weekly "Search and Destroy" appears in alterna-papers, felt the only way to discover...