Mladen Novaković Collection
Ferdinand Bis (1910-1981) was active in Croatian comics from 1938 to 1943. His first work appeared in Mickey Strip, the magazine of the Neugebauer brothers. Bis made stories like ‘Četiri jahača Apokalipse’, ‘Tri hajduka’, ‘Grbavac sa željeznom maskom’ and ‘Flota…
Marco Bianchini (1958) began his career in the 1970s, publishing his works in fanzines and local publications. In 1976 he started illustrating for Italian and foreign science-fiction magazines. In 1980 he joined the publishing house Edifumetto and entered the world…
Stanko Bešlić (1955) studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. He has been a professional illustrator and comic artist since early 1980s. His comics of various genres have been published in magazines and newspapers such as Patak,…
Francis Bertrand (1937-1994), who usually went by his first name only, started his long-lasting comics career in 1957, when his first comic was published in La Cité. Although he worked with various Belgian and foreign publications, most of his work…
Bermejo began his career as the assistant of Manuel Gago and then he got his own series ‘El Rey del Mar’. In the late 1950s he began his comics career in Britain, working for Tarzan Weekly and Thriller Picture among…
Žarko Beker (1936-2012) studied architecture, but left his studies to become a comic artist. His first comic was published in magazine Pionir in 1951. In 1956, he started working in animation, and for three years he worked on seven films.…
Frank Bellamy (1917-1976) began his artistic career working for an art agency in Kettering, where he made paintings for a local cinema. In 1948 he became a freelance illustrator for several magazines in London. For Eagle magazine he created the…
Ivica Bednjanec (1934-2011), a professor at the Zagreb Graphic Arts School, was writing and drawing comics during a prolific career of over 40 years. He began his career as a lithographer with the printing firm Ognjen Prica in Zagreb. He…
Dino Battaglia (1923-1983) entered the world of comics in 1946. He worked with other Venetian artists, among them Hugo Pratt and Alberto Ongaro. In 1950 he worked on Mondadori’s ‘Pecos Bill’ and for Il Vittorioso. In 1959 he started a…
Štef Bartolić (1967) has been drawing comics since 1986. His works have been published in Polet, Studentski list, Maxi strip magazin, Patak, Plavi zabavnik, Večernji list, Playboy and in children’s magazines. His strip ‘Gluhe laste’ ran in Modra lasta magazine…