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CONFLICTIN'KOSOVOU nival INALCartoonist describes attacks in e-mails from YugoslaviaComic-book Web site offers unedited view of messagesBy Bill Radford/The GazetteThe real world can show up in the strangest pJucC.Tim Splash page on COMICON.COM, a Sort of online comic-book convention at www.comicon. com, usually Is devoicd to developments in the comic-book industry.However, showinj the global nature of the conics community, Splash (his week carried unedited e-mails from cartoonist Sasa Rakezic, caught ill die NATO aii'st.rikes on Yugoslavia.Eakezic publishes under die name .Aleksander '/lt;ograf. His work — which his Web sile says “depicts both the ’psychological view’ of the crisis In ex-Yugoslavia and his own dreams and musings •• fas been published ill the United States by Kaiua-graphics, King llell.Press and Kitchen Sink.Rekcztc lives if' P»n00V0, nerrw; t,hr Danube Uiver from Belgrade. In liis e-mails, lie assured friends in tlie comics community of liis well-being and told of the attacks.I am writing this during the raids,* he wrote in his first e-mail 'NATO had striked Puncevo, as well as some nearby vil'ages and some suburban parts in Belgrade, and many oilier towns in Serbia. .. 1 tryfd (sic) to send the message one hour before and was interrupted by explosion ... It was NOT inour part, of town, but they hit the 'JTVA, a plane factory.... I can still see the flames as I'm writing:hie.In its first damage assessments of the bombardment, NATO a aid four missiles' struck an'aircral't plant in Pancevo, destroying several small planes.in his e-mails, Rakczlc wrote of the surreal scene of life going on pretty much as normal while bombs tell in the background: “Many peoole are still on ihc street we were surprized (sic] that the panick ■sic) was not overwhelming ... tioti, it's so prosaic ... 1 just, saw some 16-17 year old kids on the swings in the littfe park near by our block of buildings. ... And that flame in the distance as well.Rakezic fears the official response to the attacks: They will use this situation to fight the ‘different voices’ in Serbia— 1 still don’t understand why•hey are bombing again aiul again thin stinky little •own of Pfflicpvo, and how it Is going to stop the conflict in Kosovo.Rakezic worries things in Pancevo will get worse before they get better: Ttere they started to run only clomesticly (sic) produced Yugoslav movies in the cinema and boring old war movies lt;at tlie TV.... And still there is not enough news and not enough reliable l (formation, but we heard that those strikes may become harder and harder.
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Colorado Springs Gazette
Colorado Springs, Colorado, US
Sat, Mar 27, 1999
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