"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 published this October. The hardcover book will be more than 200 pages -- 144 of which are the story itself, with additional pages of text fleshing out more details of the Rustemagic family's ordeal.
Though more than six months from its publication, this story of survival has already caught the attention of the media. The New York Times ran a five-column article on Kubert and Fax in their Sunday, April 14, 1996 issue. "This is what the comics market has been asking for," said Mike Richardson, publisher of Dark Horse Comics. "Fax from Sarajevo will bring attention to the comics world -- not the Biff! Bang! Pow! attention we get when an old hero `dies' or a new hero is translated to motion pictures, but the kind of attention that shows that this medium is as capable of serious communication as any other medium. This is the type of project that will bring new readers to our industry.