In early March, Zograf was a guest lecturer at the Ethnology/Anthropology group of the Faculty of Philosophy, in Belgrade. The  topic of his lecture was 'the flea market as a place of  exchange and discovery of cultural artifacts' – illustrated by his own flea market related comics and finds.

The Student Cultural Center in Belgrade hosted a presentation of the book titled “Comics, Life and Death of Veljko Kockar”, written by Zdravko Zupan, with an introduction by Saša Rakezić aka Aleksandar Zograf. Both Zupan and Zograf were present, and featured in a video dedicated to this event – http://www.live-e.tv/video-prilog/etv-22-03-2010/strip-tv-veljko-kockar-strip-%C5%BEivot-smrt

The show based on Comics anthology "Ctrl.Alt.Shift Unmasks Corruption", which includes works by Aleksnadar Zograf, Bryan Talbot, Dylan Horrocks, Pat Mills and many more, is recently touring UK. From March 16 to 28, it was on display at Liverpool's Contemporary Urban Centre - http://www.artinliverpool.com/blog/2010/03/ctrl-alt-shift-unmasks-corruption-in-liverpool/

Belgrade gallery Remont hosted a show titled Parallel Worlds of Aleksandar Zograf, which included his CD, book cover and poster designs, embroideries (by Gordana Basta), illustrations, and comics. A report from the opening is featured at http://www.artinfo.rs/ceo_profil.php?korisnik_id=587#info_81

Nina Bunjevac, a prominent cartoonist and a friend, residing in Toronto, did an overview of her last year’s workshop held in the land of her ancestors. Workshop, as part of Zograf’s GRRR!Program,  was based on a movie by legendary Serbian director, Dušan Makavejev, who was  participating the event in person - http://ninabunjevac.com/?p=28

Zograf’s latest Serbian book , “Polovni svet” (Seconhand World) was presented in the Student Cultural Center of Niš. Part of the talk was dedicated to a Zograf’s comic, included in a book, based on an early SF novel ( “Notes from a 2349 Travel” by Apostol Vandjelović aka Miloš Andjelković) , written by a school profesor from Niš back in 1909.

Zograf's in-depth article (signed with his real name, not a pseudonym) on findings at an Neolithic site (Stubline, 40 km away from Belgrade), has been given four pages of the political weekly Vreme (in Serbian): http://www.vreme.com/cms/view.php?id=911228

Life Under Sanctions, a story published in a 1994 book by Fantagraphics Books, has been translated into Polish and exhibited at the LIGATURA festival in Poznan, which focuses on East/Central European Comics. See the info in English - http://kushkomikss.blogspot.com/2010/01/ligatura-2010.html



A Dutch magazine, Donau, has dedicated its entire issue to comics from the South-East of Europe. The magazine includes articles (in English) on the history of Serbian comics (by Zdravko Zupan), a history of Bulgarian comics (by Yana Genova), and many other interesting goodies, including an overview of the Disney-inspired productions in pre-WW2 Eastern Europe. The cover of the magazine was made by Aleksandar Zograf. Info (in Dutch) - http://www.platformspartak.eu/log/archief/Tijdschrift-Donau-uit-over-Strips!.htm . For the Dutch- speakers, Donau magazine and its home organization Platform Spartakus have made available online the interview that Zograf gave to the national paper NRC Handelsblad, http://www.platformspartak.eu/log/uploads/interviewsashazografnrc.jpg.

In November 2008, when The Residents had their show in Belgrade, Aleksandar Zograf spent an evening in their company. For the first time, the interview that Zograf made with the mysterious San Franciscan combo is available in English, Serbian and Hungarian at the ZOGRAF WRITES section of Aleksandar Zograf Web Page, see for yourself at http://www.aleksandarzograf.com/writes.html

Aleksandar Zograf is one of the contemporary cartoonists who was asked to illustrate a page of a comics' classic as part of an exhibition entitled Cent Pour Cent in Angouleme, France. 

One hundred comics artists from around the globe were asked to choose a piece by a classic artist from the huge collection in Angouleme's comic art museum (La cite Internationale de la monde designe et la image ). The idea was to comment on or re-imagine a comics page by masters such as Herriman, McCay, Crumb and 97 others. Then, both classic work and the modern comment on it were exhibited next to each other. As his contribution, Zograf created his own take on page by Cliff Sterrett.

Among the participating artists are Ben Katchor, Scott McCloud, Joost Swarte, Carlos Nine, Maja Veselinovic and many others. The works were, of course, visible during the latest edition of the Angouleme International Comics Festival and will be on display there until March 28th, when it will be transferred to Bilbao. In September, the works will be presented at the Paris Bibliothèque Forney (bibliothèque des arts graphiques de la Ville de Paris). See the press release at http://www.citebd.org/IMG/pdf/DP_cent_pour_cent-2.pdf and an info http://www.citebd.org/spip.php?article568    

Zograf created the design for a CD release entitled ‘Kalifonija’ by Rebelstar (a band with an international line-up, singing in Serbian) – for a review of the release (in Serbian) see http://www.popboks.com/tekst.php?ID=7848, My Space page http://www.myspace.com/rebelstarmusic   

An exhibition conceived in Latvia and called ‘The Last Match’, has been transfered to Lisbon's Artside gallery. The opening was held on January 7th - http://chilicomcarne.blogspot.com/2009/08/last-match.html 

A review (in English) of Zograf's Serbian book, "Polovni svet", is available at: http://splintercomics.blogspot.com/2010/01/aleksandar-zograf-second-hand-world.html while another review of the same volume was written by ethnologist/anthropologist Ildiko Erdei (in Serbian): http://pancevackipres.com/sh/100/70/4547/   

On January 21st, Milano's Don Gallery had an opening of an exhibition dedicated to comics and illustrations connected to underground magazines, The Artist and Puck.  Along with the presence  of British comics legend Hunt Emerson, and a presentation of the first issue of Puck, an exhibition, open until March 6th, presents a selection of original drawings  by Gilbert Shelton, Squaz, Aleksandar, Zograf and many other artists. 

http://www.thedongallery.com/#current_show/puck_show

http://www.milanoweb.com/notizie-milano/arte-e-cultura/7039_-the-don-gallery-dedica-una-mostra-alla-rivista-puck 
 

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