Гараж. The Art Economist | The World's Premier Art Financial Publication & Resource. Artforum.com / home. Art|Basel. The Art Newspaper - Home. Art Scatter » Blog Archive » Thompson, Delisle, Sacco and comics non-fiction. That’s Joe Sacco, to the right, looking out of the window in a restaurant in the old part of Sarajevo. As usual he is passive — listening to the stories that other people tell him, observing life around him and presumably taking notes, though in this frame, he doesn’t seem to have a notebook with him. He looks a lot like a — journalist. Oh. There’s no drawing pad, either. By this particular moment in War’s End: Profiles From Bosnia 1995-96 (2005, Drawn and Quarterly Books), Sacco has drawn and interviewed his subject, Soba, a lot. This is still a disorienting experience. Our disorientation is apparent in how we categorize books like War’s End — in the graphic novel section of the bookstore, though it’s no more a “novel” than any words-only memoir. 1) They give a “true” account of what they witnessed and felt. 2) Their accounts are in first person. 4) Although their drawing aims and intensity levels may differ, their visual images are at least as important as the words.