Fixer, The

Joe Sacco is one of the most mesmerizing graphic novelist that I have ever come across. His ability to create gripping and taut graphic novels from materials collected by him as a journalist about various war zones and political turmoils is just exceptional. Anyone with a liking for political non-fiction and gripping stories should read books by Joe Sacco atleast once. I assure that they won't regret it.

Very Good

Reading at leisure

If you are a current affairs & graphic novels fan go for it - serious read & you know a full circle viewpoint on the Bosnia-Serbia equations in 90's

I have received a second hand copy although I paid for a new one. The book cover is dusty and its edges are folded and worn out.(The two stars are not indicative of Sacco's work.)

Casi cualquier trabajo de Joe Sacco es extraodrinario

I am not the biggest fun of comics, I just love to read anything about the civil war in former Yugoslavia. I was very surprised that I liked the drawings even more than the brilliant story and dialogues! I went on and ordered Palestine as well, can't wait to get my hands on that one as well.

A darkly violent Fellinesque riff on the Bosnian war, this "graphic novel," by Joe Sacco is a fast read, a noirish examination of the relationship between a parachute journalist and the necessary local 'fixer' who serves as a local contact and makes it possible for the journalist to drop into a foriegn country and get a story. In this case, the local turns out to be a questionable ex-fighter whose war stories are both more and less true than appearances indicate. The fixer, a troubled ex-fighter scorned by his former comrades and spurned because of his ethnic background, is a terrific character, evocative of both the unresolved issues behind the Balkan wars as well as the marginalized citizens anywhere made exiles in their own land.