Comic Book Culture
The Puzzle Italy Can't Solve: Why the Balkans Love Dylan Dog More Than the Rest of the World
While Italy spent this September celebrating Dylan Dog's fortieth birthday - with special editions, a stage play, "Horror Nights" in bookshops from Milan to Palermo - none of the commentators there addressed a far stranger question: why has this gaunt nightmare investigator from London, born in the mind of an Italian scriptwriter, taken root in the Balkans like almost nowhere else on the planet outside Italy itself?
How Zagor and Tex Outlived Their Era: Dinosaurs That Never Had to Evolve
When Italian writer Gian Luigi Bonelli was coming up with a name for his new cowboy in 1948, inspired by the honest, open features of actor Gary Cooper, he first chose “Tex Killer.”
Mikijev zabavnik: Childhood Between the Pages
There are things that never truly disappear, even when they’ve long vanished from newsstands. They no longer carry the scent of fresh print, nor do they wait for us on shelves next to sweets and stickers, yet they live somewhere deeper – in memory. One of those things is Mikijev zabavnik, the magazine generations grew up with.
Banja Luka Comic Shop: A Reminder of Childhood
Mister No is a New Yorker, a World War II veteran, and a pilot who, in the late 1950s, leaves everything behind to seek a different life in South America - settling in the Brazilian town of Manaus. He is a man running from the pressures of modern life, a charming drifter who skillfully avoids the trap of marriage. However, “Mister No” is also the name of a comic shop in Banja Luka, which was recently opened in the Nova Varoš neighborhood.
When Comics Smelled Like Adventure: Childhood with Zlatna Serija
Some childhoods are remembered for games in the yard, first bicycles, or long summer evenings. Others are remembered for their thin, colorful comic book issues, which smelled of fresh printing ink and promised adventure on every page.
