Mladen Novaković Collection
Benito Jacovitti (1923-1997) is probably the most famous Italian satirical cartoonist, best known for his absurd and humorous series full of grotesque characters and bizarre events. He graduated from the Art School in Florence and in 1939 he published his…
Vladimir Herceg (1947) studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. Although painting was his first love, he was also creating comic strips and illustrations. His first strip, ‘Desperado Joaquin Murietta’, talking of the legendary Mexican outcast from…
Aleksandar Hecl started to draw comics already in childhood. When he was thirteen, Vreme newspaper mentioned him as “the little wunderkind of Zemun”. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade, but terminated his studies in 1951, since…
Don Harley studied at Epsom College of Art, where Frank Hampson visited to give a talk about the Eagle and Dan Dare. Harley soon applied for a job and in 1951 he started working in Hampson’s studio. He has drawn…
Frank Hampson (1918-1985) was only thirteen when he got an assignment to draw sketches for Meccano Magazine. At the age of twenty he started studying at the Victoria College of Arts & Sciences and after the war he started attending…
Greg (1933-1999) was one of the leading and most prominent French-Belgian comics artists of the second half of the 20th century. He was both scriptwriter and illustrator, mentor to many new authors, as well as animator, writer, editor and publisher.…
Frano Gotovac was an architect but he also drew comics. His works were published in the newspaper Slobodna Dalmacija. He is the author of ‘Morski vuk’, ‘Tom Haggin prelazi u profesionalce’, ‘Crni biser’, ‘Grad samoubojica’, ‘Anđeo sjevera’, ‘Lovci na čaplje’,…
Godard (1932) is a French comics artist and scriptwriter, who spent his long career working for nearly all French monthly and weekly publications. His first works were published in the 1950s. In 1962 he started to write and draw ‘Norbert…
Giovannini (1922-1983), an Italian draughtsman, illustrator and painter, published his first comic in Vittorioso in 1945. This was followed by several comic adaptations of popular films and the series ‘Jim Brady’. In 1969, he left Vittorioso for Il Giornalino. While…
Alarico Gattia (1927) worked as an advertising illustrator before he started to work for Italian publisher Mondadori as an illustrator, where he stayed for many years. He began his comics career in the late 1960s in Il Corriere dei Piccoli.…