Mladen Novaković Collection
Born to a poor Parisian family, Gillon (1926-2011) started publishing cartoons and illustrations in French periodicals when he was still a young teenager. After World War II, when the market for magazines was plunged into chaos, Gillon lost this regular…
Robert Gigi (1926–2007), a French illustrator, journalist and comics artist, started working in Raymond Poïvet’s studio while still at university. In 1948, he published his first comics in the French press under the pseudonym Bob Gigi. Three years later, he…
Aleksa Gajić is famous for his comic strip ‘Technotise’, which he created in collaboration with the scriptwriter Darko Grkinić and which was later adapted to the animated film Tehnotajz: Edit & I. He works as illustrator for the magazine Politikin…
Dušan Gačić (1958) graduated from Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts, Department of Education. He makes animated films, illustrations and comic strips. His works are being published in numrous magazines and books. He has made three animated films, ‘Cvrčak’, ‘Prozor na…
This artist couple, which started collaboration in 1956, is known for their lively and realistic artwork, enhanced by an in-depth knowledge of historical costumes, uniforms and arms. Though realistic, their illustrations contribute to the story’s readability and dynamics instead of…
After completing his studies at Institut Saint-Luc in Tournai, Dermaut (1949) moved to Paris in 1971. His career in comics began three years later, when he joined the publishing house Fleurus. Under the pseudonym Franjack, he illustrated a comic adaptation…
Ljubomir Filipovski is the only Macedonian author to pursue comic art professionally. In the 1970s he cooperated with the IPC publishing house from London. Later he moved his focus to the Yugoslav market and created the western comic strip ‘Belle…
Ebner (1918-1945) was a professional lithographer, who dedicated most of his life to making comic strips. During the Interbellum he was one of the most published authors in the Belgrade magazine Mika Miš. His first comic strip Misterije okeanskih dubina…
Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri studied painting and architecture at the Fine Art Academy in Rome and began his career as a painter in 1966. In 1975 he shifted his focus to comics when he started to work for Italian comic magazine…
Borivoj Dovniković Bordo (1930) joined a group of cartoonists from the Kerempuh weekly humor magazine in 1950 in making the first Croatian artistic animated film ʾVeliki mitingʾ. Bordo was a co-funder of Duga film. He began creating his independent animated…