Even in times of limitless temptations and sufferings, the Serbian people of Upper Podrinje and Bosnia and Herzegovina in general, managed to build its temples and to manifest its sense of belonging ...to the community of enlightened and civilized nations. Many temples, built due to hard labor of ancestors, were destroyed in fire, but the faithful people, moved by the spiritual strength of its forefathers, renewed them. Many generations have repeated this same sce-nario, even in our own times. By building and defending their churches, Serbs were building and defending the most noble traditions of their nation. In the history of Orthodox culture in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the church of Saint George in Donja Sopotnica (close to Gorazde) occupies an extremely important place. It was built by Herzog Stefan Vukcic Kosaca. Thanks to Bozidar Ljubavic-Gorazdanin, the first printing office in Bosnia and Herzegovina was established in the church of Saint George.
Since the early 1990s, when Art Spiegelman’s Holocaust memoir in comic book form,Maus, won a Pulitzer Prize, comics creators have gained increasing attention for producing comics about contemporary ...events. Joe Sacco’s comics about Palestine and the former Yugoslavia, Ted Rall’s “graphic travelogue”To Afghanistan and Back, a comic book adaptation of the 9/11 Commission Report, and Seth Tobocman’sPortraits of Israelis and Palestinians: For my ParentsandWar in the Neighborhoodall represent the growing interest in using properties of word and image specific to comics to capture “the news.” As a result, comics journalism has begun to pop
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