[event:comix] JOE SACCO PRESENTATION IN TORONTO - TODAY, 7:00 PM
THE BEGUILING PRESENTS ACCLAIMED WAR CORRESPONDENT CARTOONIST JOE SACCO
SPECIAL EVENT FOR THE DEBUT OF SACCO’S NEW GRAPHIC NOVEL
THE FIXER
EVENT TYPE: Reading with Slides / Q&A / Book Launch
LOCATION: ROM Theatre & Rotunda, The Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen's Park
TIME: Thursday October 9th, 7:00p.m.
ADMISSION: $8 advance from The Beguiling, $10 at the door (ticket includes a combined $15 off Sacco titles)
Joe Sacco has become the most important comics journalist in the world, his work effectively defining the genre. Sacco has contributed graphic journalism pieces to
Details,
Time and
Harper's, and most recently, his story "The Underground War in Gaza" appeared in the
New York Times Magazine in July 2003. The Beguiling is honoured to host his first visit to Toronto and present the world premiere of his new book,
The Fixer (Drawn & Quarterly, Montreal). The evening will include a reading with slides followed by a lively Q&A and reception. All of Sacco's books, including
The Fixer, will be available for signing at the event.
ABOUT
THE FIXER:
Investigating the peace. When bombs are falling and western journalism is the only game left in town "fixers" are the people who sell war correspondents the human tragedy and moral outrage that makes news editors happy. Comix-journalist Joe Sacco introduces us to his own fixer; a man looking to squeeze the last bit of profit from Bosnia before the reconstruction begins. Thanks to the fixer Sacco uncovers the story of warlords and gangsters running the countryside in wartime. Ten years later Sacco returns to Bosnia to look for his fixer. What he finds makes him wonder, who won the war? And who won the peace?
The Fixer is due in stores in mid-November.
For more details visit:
www.torontocomics.com.
CONTACT: Peter Birkemoe, at The Beguiling, via email at:
mail@beguiling.com
The Beguiling
601 Markham Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6G 2L7
Phone: 416-533-9168 Fax: 416-533-7313
http://www.beguiling.com
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