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Serbia.

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Serbia

1932

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In short

This page covers the wider Yugoslav comics tradition, including Croatian and Slovenian comics.

Belgrade was a European comics centre in a golden age from 1935 to 1941, comics were banned from 1945 to 1951, and Politikin Zabavnik has been published since 1939.

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From the shelf

Serbia in numbers

01 • 04

Serbia in numbers · 01 • 04

116

1932

1960s

Artists

Artists from Serbia in the archive.

Comics from Serbia in the archive.

Veseli četvrtak, the earliest comic from Serbia in the archive.

The decade when the most new comics from Serbia began.

Artists from Serbia in the archive.

Comics from Serbia in the archive.

Veseli četvrtak, the earliest comic from Serbia in the archive.

The decade when the most new comics from Serbia began.

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strip · Comics from Serbia

History

Serbia in 4 chapters

A short history you can leaf through. Click a page, use the arrow keys, or press Turn the page to read on.

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Serbia.

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4 chapters

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Chapter 1

1880

to 1934

Magazines and the first strips

Zmaj's children's magazine Neven appeared in Novi Sad in 1880, and Sergej Golovčenko's Maks i Maksić, from 1925 in the Zagreb magazine Koprive, was the first serial strip with a recurring hero and is also counted as the first Croatian comic. Milko Bambič's Bu-Ci-Bu (1927) is taken as the start of Slovenian comics, and Politika za decu followed in 1930.

1880 to 1934

Chapter 2

1935

to 1944

Belgrade's golden age

Zigomar

From 1935 to 1941 Belgrade was a European comics centre: Đorđe Lobachev published 'Krvavo nasleđe' in 1935 and founded the Belgrade Circle of artists, Branko Vidić and Nikola Navojev's Zigomar appeared in 1939, and Politikin Zabavnik was first published on 28 February 1939. In 1943 the partisan press published Tonček pripoveduje in Slovenia.

1935 to 1944

Chapter 3

1945

to 1991

Ban and Yugoslav revival

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1880
to 1934
Chapter 01
Magazines and the first strips
Zmaj's children's magazine Neven appeared in Novi Sad in 1880, and Sergej Golovčenko's Maks i Maksić, from 1925 in the Zagreb magazine Koprive, was the first serial strip with a recurring hero and is also counted as the first Croatian comic. Milko Bambič's Bu-Ci-Bu (1927) is taken as the start of Slovenian comics, and Politika za decu followed in 1930.
1935
to 1944
Chapter 02
Belgrade's golden age
From 1935 to 1941 Belgrade was a European comics centre: Đorđe Lobachev published 'Krvavo nasleđe' in 1935 and founded the Belgrade Circle of artists, Branko Vidić and Nikola Navojev's Zigomar appeared in 1939, and Politikin Zabavnik was first published on 28 February 1939. In 1943 the partisan press published Tonček pripoveduje in Slovenia.
1945
to 1991
Chapter 03
Ban and Yugoslav revival
Comics were banned from 1945 to 1951. Afterwards Miki Muster's Slovenian comics (1952 to 1973), Croatia's Plavi vjesnik (1954 to 1973), Kostja Gatnik's Magna Purga (1977) and the late-1970s Novi kvadrat group in Croatia renewed the form.
1992
to today
Chapter 04
Successor states
Stripburger has been published in Slovenia since 1992, and Croatian artists such as Igor Kordej, Esad Ribić and Danijel Žeželj are internationally known.