Life Under Sanctions

A stark, surreal window into daily existence during the Yugoslav wars and international embargo, this single-issue comic from Fantagraphics captures the claustrophobia, black-market ingenuity, and dark humor of life under sanctions. Serbian cartoonist Aleksandar Zograf, the series' sole writer and artist, distills the era's absurdities into intimate, autobiographical vignettes that resonate far beyond their specific geopolitical moment. It stands as a vital, firsthand document of how ordinary people navigate extraordinary political and economic collapse.