Stories From The Bible by Nestor Redondo

I recently acquired these two pages of the ongoing series Mga Kasaysayan Buhat Sa Bibliya (Stories From The Bible) published by Redondo publishing company in the 1960s. 

The seller attributed them to Tony DeZuñiga. Unfortunately for the seller and fortunately for me, I think the attribution was wrong. After seeing the drawing, I have no doubt that the art was done by Nestor Redondo.

Nestor P. Redondo (1928 – 1995) was probably the most famous Filipino comics artist. He is best known for his work for DC Comics, Marvel Comics, and other American publishers in the 1970s and early 1980s. In his native Philippines, he is known for co-creating the superheroine Darna.

I already have one page of Redondo's comic from the 1970s in my collection. You can check it out here. 

 

Cover Illustration for Polet

Stjepan Micak, a friend of mine, is collecting, retouching, and categorizing my illustrations and comics from newspapers in Croatia, and he knows more about that aspect of my work than I do. He just sent me this front page of Polet from 1977.

Polet was a weekly newspaper of the Association of Socialist Youth of Croatia. The headline of this cover was about the reform of the educational system in Croatia. I was a comic editor at Polet, and I also created many illustrations for them. Most of them, like this one, were drawn on the spot at the office.

By the way, Stjepan collected and assembled a book of my early comics, published under the title From the History of Human Stupidity. Here you can read about that.

 

 

JDP Posters in The Daily Heller

'Sometimes a poster beckons a viewer in mysterious ways. Mirko Ilic’s eight seasons designing posters for JDP-Yugoslav Drama Theater in Belgrade, Serbia, are very special because they enable the designer to interpret the material in any way that makes sense. Each season is rendered in a generally different but uniform manner. In this sense, it is the perfect job for a conceptual artist who likes to move to the beat of his own tin drum (which is one of the posters he’s done). For these posters, anything goes as long as they pique the theater-goer’s interest.' –Steven Heller (Daily Heller)

 
 

My recent acquisition-a beautiful Polish movie poster created by Marian Stachurski for the Georgian film Na Naszym Podworku in 1957. 

When I acquired this poster, I didn't see the backside of the poster. Upon receiving it, I was totally surprised to see its backside. It seems even then, they were printing colour on the backside of the poster to block light, because I assume they were displayed with backlighting.

 

More A.C.2020

Here are a few more new pages from my visual essay series, A.C.2020. I originally created this series to express the anxiety and uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Over time, within the same series, I also began to address my other anxieties and visual observations.

Each visual essay consists of self-contained single-page stories created in greyish-blue tones to reflect the subject.

You can see more pages of this essay series here.

 

Modesty Blaise by Neville Colvin, Part 3.

In July this year, I posted about acquiring two consecutive daily comic of Modesty Blaise by Neville Colvin from 1984. 

I got lucky and managed to acquire the third one. I think that should satisfy my thirst for consecutive Modesty Blaise comics for a while.

Comic by Enrique Breccia

 My recent acquisition, a page from 'Los Dias Del Gitano', a comic by Enrique Breccia, published in Skorpio #30 in 1994.