fax from sarajevo

I recently read Joe Kubert's "Fax From Sarajevo," a graphic novel which tells the story of Kubert's friend Ervin Rustemagic who was trapped with his family in Sarajevo during the war. Rustemagic was able to communicate with the outside world only through fax during this time (and only when the electricity was working of course).

The artwork was nothing special, and the story/dialogue was a bit melodramatic and over-dramatized for my tastes, but the story itself was compelling and interesting. I would have preferred a more sober telling though. The Serb characters were one dimensional and the entire story was obviously one sided to the point where it smelled of propaganda. I don't think that the story's assignment of bad guys" and "good guys" labels are off base, but one-sided stroytelling detracts from the story's believablity. Basically, the whole thing read like a comic book which I think is an awful way for a graphic novel to be.

Comments

[Dav]

I feel like I just got over the last one, but today, October 10, is my BIRTHDAY.

If you MUST buy me something, please choose it from my Amazon wishlist:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/listmania/list-browse/-/34KRF5WBYAPT/ref=cm_lm_dp_l_2/002-5615896-2560015

Thanks,

Dav

[Laura]

So what's up with posting your birthday announcement as a comment to the Sarajevo book? I would think it would deserve a full-fledged entry. =) And what's up with the link (hmm, is that a joke link, just to see who is gullible enough to go to it? Cuz I did, and unless you became a minister, I don't think it's -your- wishlist.)(Not that I would buy you anything anyway, I was just being nosy!) ;)

[Dav]

It's my dork housemate sean, pretending to be me.