In what was named "Best Graphic Novel of the Year" by the Washington Times in 1996, legendary comics creator Joe Kubert accomplished on the pages of Fax From Sarajevo what no journalist, politician, or social commentator had yet been able to do -- he managed to get inside the horrors of the Bosnian war and brought it into the homes of a previously unaffected western audience. Now the award-winning graphic non-fiction book is available for the first time in trade paperback from Dark Horse Comics.

Joe Kubert's Fax From Sarajevo chronicles more than a year of fax transmissions sent from behind the Bosnian war lines by Kubert's friend and business associate, Ervin Rustemagic. These transmissions aren't a journalists view of a foreign war -- they are minute-by-minute accounts of a father's anguish as unexpected terrors are delivered upon his family and neighbors.

"This book is not fiction," said Kubert. "It is based on the daily messages I received from my friend and agent, Ervin Rustemagic. Trapped with his family in the Bosnian war zone, his only communication to the outside world was through his faxes. His messages described the horrors and frustrations visited on the defenseless people of Sarajevo. Not since World War II has such `ethnic cleansing' been visited upon a people."

Fax From Sarajevo will be available October 14 as a full-color, 224-page trade paperback, featuring 144 pages of story, and 80 pages of additional text and photographs documenting the war and its terrifying effects on a nation -- and the world. This unique trade paperback retails for $16.95 at comics shops and book stores everywhere.