I'm back. It was wonderful! At the end of it I caught a bad cold. I guess it's a price you have to pay and it was worth it. I'll have some extensive reports next week. For now here's one of dozens of sketches I did during the festival. I have this one with me because I didn't get to meet again with Roberto Zaghi.
Today, I'll be leaving to Italy. First to Florence, to visit dear friend Riccardo Burchielli and then we head together to Lucca Comics and Games Festival, held from 29th of October 'till 1st of November. I've been invited there by Edizioni BD, who will publish "Outlaw Nation" in Italy. I've borrowed fully funcitoning camera from Mrva, so there'll be tons of pics and a proper report when I get back next week.
Just to stay in the same mood; a reconstruction of the theft of some legal papers that were evidence for some bigger complot. Eddy Biukovic did the layouts which I've embellished and Bob did the lettering. Done for the weekly newspaper Nacional, twelve years ago. In the lower left corner it says that Eddy and me are working for American publisher, which at the time wasn't really true about me, but Bob was - lettering Eddy's "Human Target".
Found this today. Thirteen years ago, as a young struggling artist who would take any job with the slightest promise of being paid, I started working for daily newspaper Vecernji list. They needed illustrations for the articles about crimes (how do you say "Crna kronika" in English?) when they couldn't get the proper photos. It lasted shortly though, because very soon new editorial staff came in and ditched the idea. Can't remember if I got paid.
Belgrade was fun, but now it's done! Well, actually not now but six days ago. :) I've been dealing with some quite mundane (nevertheless important) stuff since I've returned, so I've neglected blogging, but still managed to do some work, too. So here's a little bit of action for you, faithful followers ... : )
I'll be in Belgrade over the weekend, visiting 7th International Comics Showroom. Expecting to meet quite a few old friends and acquaintances, but especially looking forward to finally meet R.M. Guera, the special guest of the show. While I'll be drinking with him in person, you can get some compensation by watching this clip. And ... if you haven't do it by now, start buying and reading "Scalped" first thing tomorrow! Have a nice weekend, folks! I know i will! : D
Initiated by comments on a previous post, I started digging for the last time I've worked on Martina Mjesec. Found out it was two years ago!!! Last thing I did was this mess of a layout for the fifth page of the fifth episode. Also, I've found out that archive of the previous episodes isn't there anymore. Since these doodles can hardly be called drawings, here's a little teaser of the episode that's been in the making for years now.
Mrva posted the colored version on his blog, so I had to come up with something else for this post. It's a doodle I did while warming up for the cover. Go say "thanks" to Mrva for the extra material you get to see! : )
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