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Milorad Dobrić

Milorad Dobrić (1924-1991) studied architecture but his beloved hobby was cartooning, which became his profession in 1945. In 1950 he got a job as political cartoonists on the humour weekly Jež in Belgrade. Very soon he became one of the

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Posted in Serbia

René Deynis

Deynis (1928-1994) started his career as an illustrator for Vaillant and Fillette. In 1962, he succeeded Gerald Forton on ‘Reporter Jacques Flash’, a comic about the adventures of a journalist who uses an invisibility serum to fight crime. After injuring

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Posted in France

Radovan Devlić

Radovan Devlić (1950-2000) began his career in Polet magazine in 1976. He was part of a renewing group of artists called Novi Kvadrat (“New Frameˮ), together with Mirko Ilić, Ninoslav Kunc, Krešimir Zimonić and Igor Kordej. Among his comics are

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Posted in Croatia

Philippe Delaby

At the age of fourteen, Dealby (1961) entered the Academy of Fine Arts of Tournai, where he became fascinated by Flemish and French classical painters. At first, he was interested in oil painting, but focused on comics at the age

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Posted in Belgium

Youssef Daoudi

Daoudi (1969) turned to comics, his childhood love, after having studied film and after a successful career in advertising, where he gained a lot of experience in combining images with words. This turn took place shortly after he had moved,

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Posted in Morroco, Other countries

Alem Ćurin

Alem Ćurin (1953) studied graphic arts at the Academy of Fine Arts, but he abandoned his studies to pursue comic art. Having experienced disappointment due to failure in commercial comics, because of which he had given up education, he turned

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Posted in Croatia

Adam Čurdinjaković

Adam Čurdinjaković (1948.) is a comic artist, scriptwriter, illustrator, book editor and designer. For 12 years his comic strips were published in Glas Slavonije newspaper. He is the author of strips ‘Čaruga’ and ‘Ban Jelačić’.

Posted in Croatia

Carlos Cruz

Carlos Cruz (1930), an artist born in Andalusia, had his first works published in the local press when he was only seventeen. In 1949 he migrated to Buenos Aires, where he found a job in a mill, while working for

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Posted in Spain

Félicísimo Coria

Although Coria (1948) developed a passion for comics as a young boy, his start of a professional career in this field was sheer coincidence. When his sister married William Vance, a Belgian comics illustrator, Coria was introduced into the world

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Posted in Spain

Eduardo Teixeira Coelho

Eduardo Teixeira Coelho – ETC, Martin Sièvre is regarded one of the most eminent Portuguese comics artist. His oeuvre largely consists of historical comics, which often deal with the subject of Vikings, although he also worked on other genres. His

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Posted in Other countries, Portugal