Joe Sacco's books offer both sharp insight into the complexities of global politics and extraordinary glimpses of the everyday people who live in a war zones. He has been favorably compared with Pulitzer-Prize winner Art Spiegelman for his ability to brilliantly navigate such socially and politically-sensitive subject matter within the comic book medium. In 1995, just prior to the Dayton Peace Accord, Sacco spent four months in Sarajevo and its surrounding areas. There he began his book Safe Area: Gorazde, a staggering and fierce condemnation of the political impotence and badly planned UN operations during the Bosnian conflict.