Safe Area Goražde

Safe Area Goražde
AuthorJoe Sacco
IllustratorJoe Sacco
LanguageEnglish
SubjectBosnian War
GenreNew Journalism
PublisherFantagraphics
Publication date
2000, 2011 (Special Edition)
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint, paperback
Pages227
ISBN1-56097-392-7
OCLC44765236
Followed byThe Fixer 

Safe Area Goražde is a journalistic comic book about the Bosnian War, written and drawn by Joe Sacco. It was published in 2000.

The book describes the author's experiences during four months spent in Bosnia in 1995–96, and is based on conversations with Bosniaks trapped within the enclave of Goražde.

Sacco combines the oral histories of his interviewees with his own observations on conditions in the enclave as well as his feelings about being in a danger zone. He keeps his primary focus on roughly half a dozen people, which helps to structure the collection of vignettes into something of a narrative, while also including interviews with a number of other people. Sacco stands back and lets the interviewees tell their stories, keeping his editorializing and personal reflections to interludes.