![]() ![]() ![]() As he lightens Sacco’s wallet meal by meal, he spins forth the dozens of stories stitched together for The Fixer, which has by now surely repaid all those 1990s expenses. When the Yugoslavian state collapsed, despite Serb parentage Neven decided he wouldn’t join the Serb nationalists because he didn’t hate anyone. It’s contracted to the single page because it’s only relevant in establishing the type of man Neven is, and because there’s so much more to come. Sacco differentiates Neven’s past from the present of the 1990s via use of black page bordering, and the incidents covered in the sample page alone are a movie in themselves. Sacco acknowledges this over the first pages of a story encompassing Neven’s past and stretching forward to 2001 when Sacco hopes to meet Neven again. Sacco meets him in a hotel lobby on his first trip to Sarajevo, and his contacts, knowhow and ingenuity go a long way to enabling Sacco’s subsequent reportage. His sympathetic and horrific depiction of a city under siege and what was once a nation fragmented into different countries and torn to pieces might have turned out very differently were it not for Neven, the Fixer of the title. The two stories themselves combined for War’s End were subsequently further matched with this for The Fixer and Other Stories, but it was Safe Area Goražde that made Sacco’s reputation. ![]() ![]() Joe Sacco’s 1990s trips to Sarajevo resulted in two books. ![]()
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