Balkan Snapshots Film Festival

INTO THE EX-YUGOSLAV COMIC UNDERGROUND WITH ALEKSANDAR ZOGRAF

Comic Drawers’ Salon in cooperation with Platform Spartak

Sunday November 1st - Kriterion 2
17.00 / free entrance

Prints on toilet paper, fuzzy fanzines roulating through the old Yugoslavia, brotherhood and unity in black-and-white, comic jams in eye-biting mixtures of styles, free-jazz improvisation put on paper in graphic noise….

Comics in Ex-Yugoslavia have a specific style and a dito story to tell. From the toxic polluted city of Pancevo, north from Belgrade, arose a lively scene of comic drawers in the 1990s, that spread it’s philosophy over the rest of the Balkans.

Central figure in the Ex-Yugoslav Comic underground is Aleksandar Zograf from Pancevo, whose universal narratives tell the day-to-day-life in a changing Serbia. His comics go into the very heart of Ex-Yugoslav society and tell about life under sanctions, transition and coping with recent and older history. However, the style is always personal and autobiographical. It’s just the world in dreams and in real life, according to Zograf.

Zograf worked with worldwide famous comic drawers like Robert Crumb from the US and his comics were translated into many languages. Although he made a comic-drawing letter with Dutch comic artist Maaike Hartjes during the 1999 bombing, he never has been in the Netherlands.

In a one-hour session Zograf will show, tell and draw about the Ex-Yugoslav comic underground scene on invitation and in cooperation with the Dutch organisation Platform Spartak. Some materials (fanzines, small books, self-published works) from the Belgrade underground can be bought too.

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