Safe Area Goražde

In the early 2000s, Joe Sacco brought his signature journalistic comics approach to Fantagraphics for this single-issue work, documenting the siege of Goražde during the Bosnian War. Through meticulous reportage and stark black-and-white illustration, Sacco captures the resilience of civilians trapped in a UN-declared "safe area" that was anything but safe. This landmark piece of graphic journalism matters for its unflinching, human-scale portrayal of a conflict often reduced to headlines, cementing Sacco's role as a vital chronicler of modern war.