The Fixer

Rating:
Summary: collectible hardcover about war in Bosnia; satisfying...
Review: "THE FIXER" HC by Joe Sacco. A middling comicbook account at best.... of socio-political in nature, enthusingly offers up kindling glimpses of barbarous portrait of life...during the crunches of war. Soaking, cutting & equally amusing, a hardback to abide.

The story leads off in 1991, the eruption of the ETHNIC WAR marches on between the entangles--- the Bosnians, Serbs, Muslims & Croats within the interior of Bosnia. It is a while, where mass of journalists alighted into the dust of the striken nation. For all parts, the setting of the story lives in Sarajevo, the capital city of Bosnia.

It is also the while, wherein the year of 1995, which the writer/artist Joe Sacco slips into his very first meeting with Neven, the fixer. A "Fixer" is a guide, a tower of information, & a cavalier(arranger) for tip-toeing war correspondents & in return, the fixer gets paid for his service on a per diem basis.

As crisis enrages, the Bosnians government left no other hopes but to beef up there paramilitary forces by deputizing--though former felons yet influential & capable individuals-- with police power to uphold the laws for Bosnia. These so-called "warlords", with there respective clout of longtimers, faithful henchmen, are tasked to commandeer each of their own brigades with a sole purpose to combat against treasonous rebels such as Serbs, Croats, leftists, etc.

Those warlords in Sarajevo encompassing the list of persons, are namely-- Celo, Juka, Caco & Delalic. Neven is an ex-sniper before the gust of the war & is indeed a part of Celo's brigade.

The book, essentially is sundered into two intermittent parts. One, fasten on the past & which relates the bio of Neven, while the second alternate meanders to the present, which spills to us the grassroots bindings in-working between Neven & Joe.

This hardback should goes strictly for an adult, because of its explicit sexual contents, & mature theme & situation. It has merely an 105 pages of bonafide contents (as opposes to 140 pages), in starkly laid & inked B & W, & in sating, big enough book size of 7.84(width) X 11 (lenght).

A chip of harangue on this book entitled "Jar of Fools" TP. The fixer & likewise this book are both publish by Drawn & Quarterly. But, unlike the fixer & otherwise pleasing reading, the pages easily fall off only after one spell. It should call to the publisher to discriminantly upgrade the quality of production of there softcover/TPB line.

Some of these titles are also good reading. "No Pasaran" vol. 1 & 2 TPs by Vittorio Giardino; "Last Day in Vietnam" TP & "the Dreamer" TP by Will Eisner; & "Picture Bible" HC by Iva Hoth.

Certainly a good book to add to your library !

RECOMMENDED !!!

Rating:
Summary: collectible hardcover about war in Bosnia; satisfying...
Review: "THE FIXER" HC by Joe Sacco. A middling comicbook account at best.... of socio-political in nature, enthusingly offers up kindling glimpses of barbarous portrait of life...during the crunches of war. Soaking, cutting & equally amusing, a hardback to abide.

The story leads off in 1991, the eruption of the ETHNIC WAR marches on between the entangles--- the Bosnians, Serbs, Muslims & Croats within the interior of Bosnia. It is a while, where mass of journalists alighted into the dust of the striken nation. For all parts, the setting of the story lives in Sarajevo, the capital city of Bosnia.

It is also the while, wherein the year of 1995, which the writer/artist Joe Sacco slips into his very first meeting with Neven, the fixer. A "Fixer" is a guide, a tower of information, & a cavalier(arranger) for tip-toeing war correspondents & in return, the fixer gets paid for his service on a per diem basis.

As crisis enrages, the Bosnians government left no other hopes but to beef up there paramilitary forces by deputizing--though former felons yet influential & capable individuals-- with police power to uphold the laws for Bosnia. These so-called "warlords", with there respective clout of longtimers, faithful henchmen, are tasked to commandeer each of their own brigades with a sole purpose to combat against treasonous rebels such as Serbs, Croats, leftists, etc.

Those warlords in Sarajevo encompassing the list of persons, are namely-- Celo, Juka, Caco & Delalic. Neven is an ex-sniper before the gust of the war & is indeed a part of Celo's brigade.

The book, essentially is sundered into two intermittent parts. One, fasten on the past & which relates the bio of Neven, while the second alternate meanders to the present, which spills to us the grassroots bindings in-working between Neven & Joe.

This hardback should goes strictly for an adult, because of its explicit sexual contents, & mature theme & situation. It has merely an 105 pages of bonafide contents (as opposes to 140 pages), in starkly laid & inked B & W, & in sating, big enough book size of 7.84(width) X 11 (lenght).

A chip of harangue on this book entitled "Jar of Fools" TP. The fixer & likewise this book are both publish by Drawn & Quarterly. But, unlike the fixer & otherwise pleasing reading, the pages easily fall off only after one spell. It should call to the publisher to discriminantly upgrade the quality of production of there softcover/TPB line.

Some of these titles are also good reading. "No Pasaran" vol. 1 & 2 TPs by Vittorio Giardino; "Last Day in Vietnam" TP & "the Dreamer" TP by Will Eisner; & "Picture Bible" HC by Iva Hoth.

Certainly a good book to add to your library !

RECOMMENDED !!!