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Marko Stojanović was born on May 17th 1978 in Leskovac where he still lives and works as an English teacher. For 16 years he was drawing and translating comics (Hellboy, Hardboiled, Raptors, Sky Doll...). He has scripted albums Max Debris; Black Soul;, Hawthorne Bed; Requiem; Dog’s Lives; Dust, Ashes, Fairytale and Other Truths; Deathwatch; Le Dico des Hommes, Le Dico des Femmes; Les 69 secrets a savoir sur les Femmes; Les 69 secrets a savoir sur les Hommes; Tout obtenir de Lui; Tout obtenir de Elle and the serials ’Ageless’ and ’Bloodless’. He writes for several periodicals (he is a columnist for the UPPS portal – www.upps-sajt.com) and author of a book of comics-related essays entitled Southern Comfort published byCultural Centre of Niš in their edition ’Eldorado’. He has prepared and edited Leskovac Comics 1950-2010 monography along with several graphic novels of Serbian authors. He is also EIC of Strip Pressing comics magazine from Niš, comics editor for the Think Tank magazine from Leskovac and initial creator plus co-organizer of Balkan Young Comics Creators Showcase, the oldest and most massive comics festival in the ex-Yugoslavian region. With Srđan Nikolić Peka he is heading ’Nikola Mitrović Kokan’ school for comics creators in Leskovac. He won several tens of awards, amongst them the First Politikin Zabavnik Prize, Sixth International Comics Salon Plaque for the script and classical approach to comics, Grand Prix of the Seventh International Salon in Veles – Macedonia and two October Awards of Leskovac.
Jovan Ukropina was born on September 28th 1980 in Belgrade. He graduated from the College of Fine and Commercial art in Belgrade. Since 1992 he is a member of the ‘Đorđe Lobačev’ comics school and workshop. He worked together with the script writer Marko Stojanović on several short comics stories winning several awards, amongst which were the Second Prize for comics competition in Niš and the First Prize of Politikin Zabavnik for the SKC Competition in Belgrade. He published his comics in periodicals Strip Vilajet, Think Tank and Strip Pressing. For the magazine Blitz Woman he was creating for years the feature Nevena. For French publisher ‘12bis’ he realised La ou vivent les morts album with writer Jean-Pierre Pecau. He also illustrated books for numerous Serbian publishers, amongst them for ‘Creative Centre’ and ‘Busy Bee’.
Marco Nizzoli was born in Reggio Emilia in 1968, and graduated at European Design Institute in Milan in 1989.
Born in Milan on June 12, 1962, after completing his studies Luca Enoch followed his life-long passion working as a free-lance graphic designer and illustrator both in the editorial and advertising field. In 1990 he took part in the annual contest held by the "International Congress of Comics and Fantasy" at Prato, winning the first prize with his story "Raptus". His professional début came in July of the following year on the Fumo di China #10, with the gloomy fantasy story "Eliah" for which he wrote a second episode, again for FdC.
Lecturer, broadcaster and exhibitions curator specialising in international comic art, Paul Gravett was nicknamed "The Man at The Crossroads" by Eddie Campbell and hailed by The Times of London as "the greatest historian of the comics and graphic novel form in this country." He co-founded the influential British comics magazine Escape (1983-9), directed the Cartoon Art Trust (1992-2001) and since 2003 has organised Comica, the London International Comics Festival. He writes for the Times, Guardian, Independent, Times Literary Supplement, Art Review, Dazed & Confused, Comic Heroes and others and is the author of “Manga: 60 Years of Japanese Comics” (2004) and “Graphic Novels: Stories to Change Your Life” (2005), co-author with Peter Stanbury of “Great British Comics” (2006) and “Incredibly Strange Comics” (2008) and editor of “The Mammoth Book of Best Crime Comics” (2008). His latest book is “1001 Comics You Must Read Before You Die”, out in October. See 
Laurence Heyworth is Managing Director of Look and Learn Ltd, a company that owns the rights to 16 classic British children’s educational magazines, including Look and Learn (1962-82). Out of this enormous archive of illustrations and comic strips, Look and Learn has created an online picture library which can be visited at 
Born in Priština on February 10th 1927, Novica Kruljević had changed many professions during his working life. He has been the multiple Yugoslavian champion in debate shorthand and has retired as Politika journalist-stenographer. But, he has been spending every available moment of his time-off dedicated to one of his three great loves: chess, drawing comics and painting.
’Deep and Cold’ is a very heavy, very dark horror initially done for a publisher Josep Toutain.
Essayist, critic and editor. Born in Belgrade in 1955, where he lived until moving to Amsterdam in 1991. Writes mostly for magazines and newspapers in the countries that emerged from Yugoslavia. For many years, he was editor in magazine Vidici, and then the editor-in-chief of Novi Vidici in Belgrade. In 1988, he published a book of essays on comics Thomas Mann or Philip K. Dick, which is now available online at http://www.stripovi.com/index.asp?page=column-view&ColumnID=6. In 1990, he published a monograph on Ken Parker, a comic by Giancarlo Berardi and Ivo Milazzo. He also edited a number of books, collections and special issues, including The Poetics of Comics (Knjizevna kritika #5 1987) and organized a series of exhibitions devoted to comics. Djukanovic has a regular column (the Post Scriptum) in www.stripvesti.com and continuously writes for the Belgarde weekly Vreme. Hundreds of Djukanovic's essays and criticism have been published (next to his columns in NIN, YU-strip magazine, Stripoteka and Vreme) in over forty dailies, weeklies, comic magazines and magazines for culture and literature. His essays have been translated into English, French and Dutch. He worked as an editor in several magazines in the Netherlands: Beodam, De Horizon, Now Future! and De Krant. He was one of the founders of a peace organization MiZaMir in the Netherlands in 1991. For more than a decade he worked in the Press Now, the Dutch foundation for the development of independent media in Europe, Asia and Africa, where he developed hundreds of media projects for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Macedonia, Armenia, Iraq, Iran and Uganda, regularly visiting most of these countries.
(...) this new book by ŽivojinTamburić, Zdravko Zupan and Zoran Stefanović really blows the lid off of this treasure chest, brimming with a cornucopia of gems. Between them, these intrepid, discriminating compilers have realised an exceptional achievement in this book, by combing diligently through thousands of pages of comics and comics reviews to distill a captivating alphabet of artists and writers who have shaped and enhanced not only the comics of their homeland but in several cases the comics of the world.
At the beginning of the millennium in Montenegro the media suddenly started to multiply, among other things, the daily press. This opened up space for a newspaper comic strip. Newspaper comic strips, truth to be told, did not begin to appear with options open, but with the editorial awareness needed. It was woken up with a comic strip “Mićun” by Simon Vučković, appearing for a short time in June 2001 in Podgorica-based daily Montenegrins’ Voice, and soon in the Podgorica daily Dan, where it is still published. After this comic, there is a strip “Perica” in the Sunday children's supplement of the Podgorica daily Victory. Towards the end of 2002. and in 2003. in Podgorica weekly Journal D a daily tier “Vagabonds” is appearing. Early in 2003. on the children’s Sunday page in the daily Dan strip “Čupko” begins. All four comics are from the same author. After a few months of being published for a short period of time, “Čupko” is replaced with “Mrva” by Mirko Zulić, appearing till January 2004 when Zulić has started to work on a two-day strip “Krle” instead of “Mićun”.
On a wave of current Hollywood trend of comic book superheroes film adaptations, or to be more precise, in the epicenter of phenomenon of costumed warriors for justice, landed very unique feature documentary from USA, film that transcends boundaries of fiction. Opposite to the tendency to add more “human” elements to superheroes such as Batman in the movies, this skillfully tailored documentary debut from complete author Michael Barnett, diffracts American society predicament trough the prism of couple of “real” superheroes in their attempt to clean predominant problem of crime on the streets of USA, (also offering distinct dimension of authenticity to the movies such as ”Defendor”- a recent Canadian gem from Peter Stebbings, or current James Gunn’s flick “Super”). Predominantly acting at night, dressed in authentic costumes designed by themselves and armed with tools from everyday life, a number of superheroes like Mr. Extreme, Master Legend and others, succeeded to be recognized even by the American medias, while the movie by itself, absolutely validly gained enviable popularity at many festivals across North America (second audience award at the largest genre festival of the continent-Fantasia, Montreal 2011). Thanks to the kindness of the film producer Theodore James, audience of our Showroom will have exclusive opportunity to enjoy the screening of this movie on this side of the Ocean.
As director, cinematographer, cameraman and animator, Nikola Majdak has authored over 300 documentary,feature, short and animated films. He is the author of the first cartoon films made in Belgrade: The Solist and The Man of Chalk (1963). He worked as a professor and Head of Department for Film and TV Camera at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. He also headed the Department of Animation at the Dunav Film School. He is the founder and director of Balkanima - European Festival of Animated Film. He is a recepient of numerous local and international awards, including the Golden Plaque of the Jugoslav Film Archive.
Studentski kulturni centar Beograd
ul. Kralja Milana 48 i Bulevar Zorana Đinđića 152a
www.skc.org.rs
ul. Kralja Milana 48 i Bulevar Zorana Đinđića 152a
www.skc.org.rs
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