Regards From Serbia: A Cartoonist's Diary of a Crisis in Serbia

As the NATO bombs fell on his hometown of Pančevo in 1999, Serbian cartoonist Aleksandar Zograf used his diary comics and e-mail to reach out to the world and offer a glimpse at the effects of the attacks. Over the weeks and months of the war, Zograf documented not only how the bombings shattered the lives of his friends and neighbors, but also how the routine of daily life remained unchanged. The most recent attacks on Pančevo's oil refinery are contrasted with the latest local soccer matches -- and American propaganda flyers are as likely to fall from the sky as American comics are to arrive in the mail.

Also collecting Zograf's early strips leading up to the NATO campaign, as well as his thoughts on the aftermath, this volume offers a comprehensive acount of the conflight as only a local could tell it. In today's ratings-driven era of globetrotting correspondents and embedded reportage, Regards from Serbia rings with the truth of a man who had the headlines come to him.