Montenegro.
Montenegro
1969
Montenegro's comics tradition is small and closely tied to the wider Yugoslav scene.
Andrija Maurović, often called the father of Croatian and Yugoslav comics, was born in Muo near Kotor in 1901, and Lazo Sredanović from Nikšić drew Dikan for Politikin Zabavnik from 1969. Since the 1990s, newspaper cartoonists such as Goran Šćekić and a comics club founded in Kotor in 2001, which became the Association of Comics Authors of Montenegro in 2005, have built a local scene.
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1969
2000s
Artists from Montenegro in the archive.
Comics from Montenegro in the archive.
Dikan, the earliest comic from Montenegro in the archive.
The decade when the most new comics from Montenegro began.
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Montenegro in 4 chapters
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Montenegro.
4 chapters
Chapter 1
1935
to 1968
Pioneers born in Montenegro
1935
to 1968
Chapter 01
Pioneers born in Montenegro
Andrija Maurović, born in Muo near Kotor, made his first comic in Zagreb in 1935 and created the western hero Stari Mačak in 1937. Lazo Sredanović from Nikšić published his first comic at fourteen in the children's paper Pioniri.
1969
to 1991
Chapter 02
Yugoslav magazines
From 1969 Sredanović drew Dikan exclusively for Politikin Zabavnik, one of the best loved comics in the former Yugoslavia. Montenegrin-born artists such as Rade Tovladijac, who debuted in 1983, and the illustrator Božidar Pavićević worked for Yugoslav magazines and papers including Jež and Pobjeda.
1992
to 2000
Chapter 03
Cartoons in the Podgorica press
Goran Šćekić began publishing political cartoons in the Podgorica daily Pobjeda in 1992 and moved to Dan in 1999. A Montenegrin cartoonists' association was founded in 1996, and Milija Pajković published the first full newspaper comics page in Montenegro in 1998 and 1999.
2001
to today
Chapter 04
The Kotor club and the comics association
A comics club named after Andrija Maurović started in Kotor in October 2001 and became the Association of Comics Authors of Montenegro in August 2005, producing exhibitions and seven issues of the e-magazine ZONA9. Simon Vučković's daily strip Mićun i Vukota began in Dan in 2001, and Tihomir Čelanović, who grew up in Kotor, has published albums in Serbia, Italy and France.
The comics to know
- Stari Mačak1937 · comic book seriesAndrija Maurović and Franjo Fuis. Western series made in Zagreb by the Kotor-born Maurović.
- Dikan1969 · comic book seriesLazo Sredanović, with writers including Nikola Lekić and Slobodan Ivkov. Drawn exclusively for Politikin Zabavnik.
- Mićun i Vukota2001 · comic stripSimon Vučković. Daily strip in the Podgorica paper Dan, with close to 2,000 strips published.
- Sličnographic novelLuka Lagator. First comics book published in Montenegro.
- EudoraЕудора: Свитањем почиње звук2001 · graphic novelTihomir Čelanović. Album published in Belgrade and in Italy.
- ZONA9comics magazineAssociation of Comics Authors of Montenegro. E-magazine that ran for seven issues.
The people to know
- Andrija MaurovićАндрија Мауровић1901 to 1981Born in Muo near Kotor; often called the father of Yugoslav comics.
- Lazo Sredanović1939 to 2022Nikšić-born artist of Dikan.
- Goran ŠćekićBorn 1963Podgorica cartoonist with more than 7,000 political cartoons.
- Simon VučkovićBorn 1975Founder and president of the Association of Comics Authors of Montenegro; creator of Mićun i Vukota.
- Luka LagatorBorn 1945Cetinje painter and cartoonist; author of Slično.
- Darko DrljevićBorn 1962President of the Montenegrin cartoonists' association and FECO Montenegro.
- Tihomir ČelanovićKotor-raised artist of Eudora and Le Diurne.