Synopsis
The Comics We Loved: Selection of 20th Century Comics and Creators from the Region of Former Yugoslavia is a lexicon for the wider audience. For the first time in the research of popular culture, there has been drawn together, in one place, the most important works and authors opuses, from one of the centres of European comics. Yugoslavia in the 20th century was a region which was not only massively developing comics culture, but was also producing many important works of the history of comics, and even some masterpieces. This tradition has continued even today in the countries which were a part of the former Yugoslavia: Serbia, Croatia, Macedonia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro. The book provides basic information, panel examples and critiques or citations from critiques for about 400 comics from about 400 authors (about 200 artists, 150 script writers, 50 writers whose works were used in comics). With the help of about 100 comics critics from the whole of the West Balkans, the book has been compiled by three co-authors Zivojin Tamburic, Zdravko Zupan and Zoran Stefanovic, who have been devoted to comics all their lives as readers, artists, researchers, promoters and collectors. The criteria that were used for the selection of comics are aesthetic and professional achievements, popularity with the audience, originality, sociological relevance and curiosities. The book is distinguished by many special research materials and a rediscovery of many forgotten authors opuses after many decades of obscurity. The book is published in Serbian, but the most important parts are translated into English.
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