Desimir Žižović Buin is a self-taught comic strip artist. In 1950s he illustrated Serbian national tales and epic poems. He created his first comic strip ‘Marko i Musa’ in 1953. A bit later Dečje novine newspaper began to publish his…
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Desimir Žižović Buin is a self-taught comic strip artist. In 1950s he illustrated Serbian national tales and epic poems. He created his first comic strip ‘Marko i Musa’ in 1953. A bit later Dečje novine newspaper began to publish his…
Zdravko Zupan (1950) is the leading Serbian historian of comics and the first popular culture historian to have researched systematically the roots of modern comics in Western Balkans. He had his first comic strip published in 1965 in Mali jež.…
Ante Zaninović (1934-2000) graduated from Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb with a degree in painting. From 1960 he worked in Zagreb Film. He is the author of numerous short animated films, of which The Wall from 1965 is considered…
David Wright (1912-1967) joined his uncle’s studio after leaving school and in 1941 was hired by The Sketch to paint pin-ups of glamorous women, most of whom were modelled on his wife Esme. The illustrations established him as one of…
Dan Cooper, a heroic Royal Canadian Air Force pilot, is the most famous of the characters created by the Belgian comics artist Albert Weinberg (1922-2011) . Weinberg first studied law until his studies were cut short by World War II.…
Watson (1935-1994), a big fan of comics, joined Frank Hampson’s studio in 1958 without having received any formal education in fine arts. After the studio closed a year later, Watson started to work for Lion, drawing ‘Captain Condor’ at first…
After completing his studies at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, William Vance (born William van Cutsem, 1935) first worked in advertising, where he perfected his drawing skills. His career in comics started in 1962 with the publication of…
Dušan Vukojev (1948) had his first comic strip ‘Šrafko’ published in Politikin zabavnik in 1971. He won first place at the contest for the trademark of Dnevnik’s marketing agency, thus also winning the job of a designer. Neven published his…
Boža Veselinović (1921-1999) studied architecture, but never graduated. For four decades he was contributing illustrations to Politikin zabavnik magazine, and occasionally also had them published in magazines Borba, Duga and Dečje novine. He is the author of more than twenty…
Mario Uggeri (1924-2004) attended the Art School in Cremona. When war broke out he became an Italian partisan. In 1943 he was caught and sent to Dachau concentration camp. His first published work ‘Rage l’invisibile’ appeared in the magazine Il…