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In short

Macedonian comics began in the children's press right after liberation, when Slavko Janevski published Eden bunker padna in Pioner on 3 January 1945.

The satirical paper Osten and the dailies Večer and Nova Makedonija later carried comic strips, most famously Darko Marković's daily Pecko from 1981. From the 1980s the youth press, the group Tuš laboratorija and magazines such as Makstrip (1989) and Lift (1995) brought new authors, and in 1999 Aleksandar Sotirovski's Captain Nitrate became the first comics album by a Macedonian author.

North Macedonia in numbers · 01 • 04

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1945

1960s

Artists

Artists from North Macedonia in the archive.

Comics from North Macedonia in the archive.

Da živee rabotata, the earliest comic from North Macedonia in the archive.

The decade when the most new comics from North Macedonia began.

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History

North Macedonia in 4 chapters

  1. 1941

    to 1944

    Chapter 01

    Wartime drawings

    During the Second World War, prisoners and partisans made narrative drawings that foreshadow Macedonian comics, such as Vasilie Popović Cico's 1941 cycle of 88 caricatures about life in a camp.

  2. 1945

    to 1969

    Chapter 02

    The children's press and the first strips

    Slavko Janevski's Eden bunker padna appeared in Pioner in January 1945, followed weeks later by Boro Krstevski's Da živee rabotata, and Pande Jarevski published a strip in Edinstvo in 1946. Petar Gligorovski, Ljupčo Filipov with Mirko Nemirko (1961) and Mile Topuz with Car Samuil (1962) followed, and Topuz drew many Macedonian history stories for the Yugoslav series Nikad robom.

  3. 1970

    to 1988

    Chapter 03

    Satire, daily strips and new waves

    Cartoonists such as Boro Pejčinov and Đuro Varga drew strips for the humour paper Osten, and Darko Marković's Pecko began in Nova Makedonija on 20 March 1981. Zoran Janevski's Cezar i Brut (1979) announced underground comics, and the Skopje group Tuš laboratorija, formed in 1982, published in the youth press until about 1985.

  4. 1989

    to today

    Chapter 04

    Comics magazines and albums

    Makstrip, the first Macedonian comics review, started in 1989, followed by Klik! (1994), Lift (1995) and Strip Art (1996). Captain Nitrate (1999) was the first album by a Macedonian author and Zoran Tanev's Mis Ston (2000) the first in Macedonian, while the Strip Centar of Macedonia in Veles has published the magazine Strip tvorec since 2003.

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