ALEKSANDAR ZOGRAF WEB PAGE
UPDATES

NOVEMBER – DECEMBER 2021

Whwn I was a Kid


Aleksandar Zograf visited The Regional Museum in Jagodina, in Central Serbia, and the Museum’s blog wrote about this unofficial visit: http://jagodina.museum/en/zograf/

As part of their Patte de mouche series, L’Association published Les lettres d’Hilda Dajč (in French) : https://www.actuabd.com/Le-retour-de-la-collection-Patte-de-mouche-a-L-Association-28600
https://actualitte.com/article/103650/chroniques/patte-de-mouche-petite-et-indispensable New York University organized a screening of The Final Adventure of Kaktus Kid to their students, after which they had a chance to have an online talk with the movie's director Đorđe Marković, and the main narrator and researcher Aleksandar Zograf.

Zograf’s new book was published in Italy: https://www.balcanicaucaso.org/aree/Italia/Il-quaderno-di-Radoslav-e-altre-storie-della-Seconda-guerra-mondiale-214099

Ïl Quaderno di Radoslav” (001 Edizioni) was presented in Venice, Milan and Turin. Zograf was interviewed for Venice’s Ca’Foscari University web site, as an introduction to his presentation there (in English and Italian): https://www.unive.it/pag/16584/?tx_news_pi1%5Bnews%5D=11650&cHash=e0b4f2000f3a1f08b87546c20a8880ee
https://www.unive.it/pag/14024/?tx_news_pi1%5Bnews%5D=11649&cHash=211f3b946e2fe7e81bcfcba1f5a78daa

The book presentation in Milan was covered in the main Newsreel of the Serbian national TV (RTS) (in Serbian): https://www.rts.rs/page/magazine/ci/kulturno/story/3166/nesto-drugo/4627416/aleksandar-zograf-italija-kuaderno-di-radoslav-i-druge-price-iz-drugog-sv

Il Manifesto daily published almost an entire page dedicated to Zograf’s new book, part of the article is available online: https://www.unive.it/pag/14024/?tx_news_pi1%5Bnews%5D=11649&cHash=211f3b946e2fe7e81bcfcba1f5a78daa

Zograf’s Italian “tour” was followed here (in Italian): https://www.viaggiemiraggi.org/in-tour-con-il-quaderno-di-radoslav-di-aleksandar-zograf/

Claudio Marinaccio, an Italian cartoonist publishing with Feltrinelli, did a comic about meeting Zograf in Turin(in Italian): https://maremosso.lafeltrinelli.it/news/zograf

An exhibition of Aleksandar Zograf’s comics was held in his native Pančevo, and local TV did a report (in Serbian) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YuFLavP4qk


JANUARY – OCTOBER 2021

Whwn I was a Kid



In his article for LCB Diplomatique, Zograf wrote about his near-death experiences (in English, German and Serbian) https://lcb.de/diplomatique/meeting-death/











Alan Ford


Aleksandar Zograf took part in a discussion dedicated to the phenomenon of Alan Ford, a comic that became a sort of popular cult in Yugoslavia and post-Yugoslav countries, created by the Italian authors Magnus & Bunker. The Museum of Yugoslavia in Belgrade presented a very well attended exhibition dedicated to this comic (in Serbian). https://www.muzej-jugoslavije.org/program/anatomija-alana-forda-strip-o-yu-ili-yu-u-stripu/

The Alan Ford talk was filmed and is now available on Youtube (in Serbian): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJckCaVZsuk

As part of Ohio State University’s Global Comics Lectures series, Aleksandar Zograf gave an online lecture on his comics and inspirations from flea market finds: https://library.osu.edu/site/osulstaff/2021/03/02/global-comics-lecture-series-aleksandar-zografs-flea-market-stories/

Zograf’s lecture is now on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x8Lj5Z0DC0

Nova.rs web portal posted an extensive interview with Aleksandar Zograf (in Serbian) : https://nova.rs/kultura/zograf-kriza-zapada-ispoljava-se-kroz-bolest-nije-prvi-put/




As part of a collaborative project with a club named Močvara, from Zagreb, Croatia, Saša Rakezić did several online interviews with personalities active for years in the Yugoslav/Serbian scene ( in Serbian):
Slobodan Tišma, musician and writer: https://www.facebook.com/mochvara/videos/294630115321744
Peđa Vranešević, musician: https://www.facebook.com/mochvara/videos/437105387729071
Uroš Djurić, painter and actor: https://www.facebook.com/mochvara/videos/767535850540353
Lazar Džamić, publicist: https://www.facebook.com/mochvara/videos/453405099114853



Biblioteka Kosancicev venac

Commemorating 80 years since the Nazi bombing of Belgrade in 1941, Belgrade’s Museum of Yugoslavia exhibited Zograf’s comics related to this topic. The Museum posted his statement online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1bpNT1t0H0

Politika daily newspaper published an interview with Zograf while covering this event: https://www.politika.rs/scc/clanak/477463/Velike-krize-zahtevaju-duboka-preispitivanja

While City magazine wrote about it too: https://citymagazine.danas.rs/kultura/art/stripovi-aleksandra-zografa-nova-intervencija-na-stalnoj-postavci-muzeja-jugoslavije/

So did Novosti daily: https://www.novosti.rs/c/kultura/vesti/983637/zografovi-stripovi-6-aprilu-radovi-sase-rakezica-pocetku-drugog-svetskog-rata-muzeju-jugoslavije

And NIN weekly magazine: http://micavujicic.com/prikaz.aspx?s=973&t=28&pg=1

TV Krpelj, an online platform by Zlata VK and Wostok, made a film in which Zograf talked about his longtime passion for prehistoric archeology (in Serbian): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRS4PqrPAZE

The Internet portal „BBC News in Serbian“ wrote about the history of fanzines in Serbia, mentioning late 70s fanzines by Saša Rakezić (later to become known as Aleksandar Zograf) , in Serbian: https://www.bbc.com/serbian/lat/srbija-51758593

Zograf was among the artists who participated in the collective exhibition marking 10 years of the existence of Belgrade’s Parobrod gallery (in Serbian) : https://www.izlazak.com/adresar/knjige-i-strip/event/12642-izlozba-dok-10-05-06-2021-parobrod https://lepaisrecna.mondo.rs/Lifestyle/Vesti/a36852/parobrod-izlozba.html

Aleksandar Zograf was invited to speak at the original site of Belgrade’s National Library, completely destroyed in the Nazi bombing of April 6th 1941. The bombing erased the Library’s comprehensive, rich holdings of Serbian pre-war comics magazines; one of the topics that Zograf dealt with in his research (in Serbian): https://www.danubeogradu.rs/2021/06/veceri-na-kosancicu-aleksandar-zograf/

Kulturni Dnevnik (Culture Newsreel), a show on Serbian national TV, spoke of this event as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_zS1pKk-SE&t=472s. The entirety of Zograf’s talk at the original site of the National Library was posted on Youtube (in Serbian): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6MWQB1sLS0

Svet u oblacima


Zograf was among the artists who participated in the collective exhibition marking 10 years of the existence of Belgrade’s Parobrod gallery (in Serbian) : https://www.izlazak.com/adresar/knjige-i-strip/event/12642-izlozba-dok-10-05-06-2021-parobrod https://lepaisrecna.mondo.rs/Lifestyle/Vesti/a36852/parobrod-izlozba.html

Aleksandar Zograf was invited to speak at the original site of Belgrade’s National Library, completely destroyed in the Nazi bombing of April 6th 1941. The bombing erased the Library’s comprehensive, rich holdings of Serbian pre-war comics magazines; one of the topics that Zograf dealt with in his research (in Serbian): https://www.danubeogradu.rs/2021/06/veceri-na-kosancicu-aleksandar-zograf/

Kulturni Dnevnik (Culture Newsreel), a show on Serbian national TV, spoke of this event as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_zS1pKk-SE&t=472s. The entirety of Zograf’s talk at the original site of the National Library was posted on Youtube (in Serbian): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6MWQB1sLS0

An interview with Zograf, posted on Euronews Serbia portal (in Serbian) : https://www.euronews.rs/kultura/aktuelno-iz-kulture/3309/sasa-rakezic-alijas-aleksandar-zograf-na-greskama-smo-ucili-koliko-i-na-zadivljujucim-postignucima/vest/

Aleksandar Zograf conducted a comics workshop in Podgorica, and Montenegrin daily Vijesti interviewed him (in Serbian) : https://www.vijesti.me/kultura/553481/zivot-pretvorio-u-strip

N1 TV station did a report on a presentation and exhibition dealing with the links between Serbian and American comics, and Zograf and Wostok spoke about this subject from their respective viewpoints (in Serbian): https://rs.n1info.com/kultura/kako-se-kalio-miki-maus-tragovima-kontakta-americkog-i-jugoslovenskog-stripa/. The online discussion on the same topic gathered Zoran Đukanović, Aleksandra Sekulić, Ivana Filipović, Wostok, Aleksandar Zograf and more (in Serbian, with English subtitles): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNEx13It5sw

The event called Novi Sad’s Comics Weekend introduced an exhibition named Svet u oblacima/ Un monde en bules, curated by Jana Adamović, Pavle Zelić and Aleksandar Zograf, dedicated to the links between Serbian and French comics, both historical and in the present (in Serbian): https://striposlavija.blogspot.com/2021/09/novosadski-strip-vikend-10-i-11.html

Zograf was one of the artists invited to a workshop held at Andrevlje, at Fruška Gora National Park; the topic was „Heroes, Now and Then“ (in Serbian): https://www.muzejvojvodine.org.rs/lat/umetnicka-kolonija-heroji-nekad-i-sad-na-andrevlju/


Angouleme


A textbook for 8th Graders of the Serbian schools ( equal to 'Junior High' by the American system) published by Vulkan Znanje, includes some of the letters left by Hilda Dajč, a Jewish teenager from Belgrade killed by the Nazis in the concentration camp Staro Sajmište. Zograf’s comic interpreting her writings was mentioned, and it was suggested to students to write down their impressions after they read the comic. So, yes, Zograf is now in schoolbooks… (in Serbian) https://vulkanznanje.rs/75db8117-44e3-4f3e-a71f-042cfc3f475f/Citanka-8.aspx

Pančevo’s NOVA festival, of which Zograf is one of the editors, was covered by N1 web portal (in Serbian): https://nova.rs/kultura/jozef-bojs-u-stripu-nacisticka-proslost-mit-i-stvarnost/?fbclid=IwAR0tzZJgUgyGRkZz6cq8S2qCSVv7VoHTkg9uaR1kb_bjYlbi2G34SYkOKEQ

Aleksandar Zograf attended the International Comics Meeting held at the Comics Center of Angouleme, France. The discussion was subtitled Comics, a Living Heritage: History of the Arts, Heritage Development and Transmission. Other participants include Thomas Louis Côté (director of Québec BD), David B ( cartoonist), Jenny Robb (director of Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, Ohio), Joëlle Epée (curator of the exhibition on African comics and director of the Bilili BD Festival, Congo-Brazzaville), Johanna Schipper , researcher / cartoonist, and many others. (in French) http://www.citebd.org/spip.php?article9953

Nastrom, a band from the Serbian town of Kovačica, made a video clip for their song Mooncult Backyard Ritual, using drawings by Wostok, Vladan Nikolić and Aleksandar Zograf : https://youtu.be/anpwKlN6xao









[ UPDATES 2020] ...[ UPDATES 2019] ...[ UPDATES 2018] ...[ UPDATES 2017] ...[ UPDATES 2016] ...[ UPDATES 2015] ...[ UPDATES 2014] ...[ UPDATES 2013 ] ...[ UPDATES 2012 ] ...[ UPDATES 2011 ] ...[ UPDATES 2010 ] ...[ UPDATES 2009 ] ...[ UPDATES 2008 ] ...[ UPDATES 2007 ] ... [ UPDATES 2006 ] ... [ UPDATES 2003 ]