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A story about student protests in Serbia by Aleksandar Zograf was published in the Italian weekly magazine Internazionale (in Italian, available only to subscribers):
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The story was also posted on the U.S. portal Crucial Comix:
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in France on Courrier des Balkans web site
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and on the Drawing the Times portal in the Netherlands:
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The Serbian weekly Vreme published it in two instalments (in Serbian):
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It was also published by the Hungarian weekly Magyar Narancs (web version available for subscribers only):
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The story also appeared in Swedish in Galago magazine, issue no. 167:
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Zograf spoke about this story in an interview for the major Austrian daily Der Standard (in German):
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A look back at Life Under Sanctions was published in an essay on the Greek portal efsyn.gr:
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The same portal also posted Zograf’s new piece on student protests in Serbia in 2024/2025, accompanied by a commentary connecting it with protests taking place in other parts of the region—Greece, North Macedonia, Romania, and Turkey (in Greek):
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A short interview with Zograf about current events in Serbia was published in the daily Danas (in Serbian):
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After its premiere in November 2024, Zograf’s exhibition dedicated to his story about the Kragujevac massacre in 1941 was reopened in Beijing on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, in May 2025 (in Serbian):
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Aleksandar Zograf was also mentioned in a blog by Maël Rannou, publisher of Gorgonzola magazine (in French):
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In May, Aleksandar Zograf had an exhibition, workshop, lecture, and live drawing session with Jelena Popržan (musician from Vienna/Zrenjanin), and participated in several other events in Vienna, including Vienna Comix Week:
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The live drawing and music performance with Jelena Popržan was fully recorded by Ákos István (from Budapest):
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Last but not least, Tales from the Past is the title of a fanzine published by Vienna’s TiN Comix, Edition Dostal, and Replikat Press. The edition features mostly reprints of the comics that Zograf published in the 1990s (in English):
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June marked Zograf’s major exhibition, which occupied three levels of the former Cinema Balkan in the very center of Belgrade. The main focus of the exhibition was his dream comics, and it attracted significant media attention in Serbia (all articles are in Serbian, except where noted):
Aleksandar Zograf is the main coordinator of the Jarnac International Comics Workshop, an annual event held in a beautiful villa called Le Secret, in Jarnac, near the town of Angoulême, in the southwest of France. Every year, an international group of cartoonists gathers there to exchange experiences and discuss comics:
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In August, Zograf was a guest in the Italian towns of Val di Sole and Rovereto. See the announcements (in Italian):
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