I am pleased to share the recap of my PRINT Book Club podcast appearance with Debbie Millman and Steve Heller from last Friday, October 15th. We talked about my recently published book of visual essays, “Nightmares and Daydreams: A.C. 2020.”
Thank you, Debbie and Steve, for this conversation.
I am pleased to share with you that a small exhibition of my work is now open in the foyer of the Gavella Theatre in Zagreb, Croatia to celebrate the first of the theater posters I will design for the new season of plays.
“This micro-exhibition serves to inaugurate Ilic's first poster for GDK Gavella. Eugene O'Neill's drama ‘Long Journey into the Night’ is summed up in it in one striking image, a scene of cyclical movement in which the steps towards the symbolic abyss seem to tick the minutes and hours of the one day in which the drama takes place. But like any such scene, it not only opens up to multiple readings, but calls to itself many other referential images. In this case, we selected three works from Ilić's oeuvre - two comics and one newspaper illustration from completely different phases of his career. We have deliberately chosen monochrome works, so that they do not visually compete with the poster, but also to draw us even deeper into the world of labyrinths, puzzles and black intellectual humor that Ilić's work is full of. In each of them there is something more than just ‘story’ and ‘information.’ Ilić's comics are not just illustrated stories; they are very often – like here – comics about what a comic is, but also what is time and what is space in that comic. Likewise, his posters are not just about the plays themselves, but about what theatre is—and, indirectly, about what reality is." - Marko Golub
The curator of the exhibition and the author of the accompanying text is Marko Golub, and the design of the exhibition is signed by Ivona Đogić Đurić.
I'm pleased to let you know that my poster design for the play by Eugene O’Neill, "Long Day's Journey into Night", at the Gavella Drama Theatre in Zagreb, Croatia, has been posted on the streets of Zagreb.
The play is directed by Vanja Jovanović and marks the beginning of the Gavella Drama Theatre's new season.
“The play takes place on a single day in August 1912. The setting is Monte Cristo Cottage, the seaside home of the Tyrones in Connecticut. The four main characters are semi-autobiographical representations of O'Neill, his older brother, and their parents, including his father, actor James O'Neill.
The play portrays a family struggling to grapple with the realities and consequences of each member's failings. The parents and two sons blame and resent each other for various reasons; bitterness and jealousy serve as proxies for ultimately failed attempts at tenderness and compassion. The family's enduring emotional and psychological stress is fueled by their shared self-analysis, combined with articulate honesty. The story deals with addiction, unfulfilled dreams, moral flaws, and the struggle of family relationships."
I’m very happy to let you know that this year’s jury of the PRINT Magazine Design Awards 2026 has decided to bestow its first-place Graphic Novel Award on my comic book “A.C. 2020.”
So far, the book has been published in two editions: the Croatian “A.C. 2020,” published by Fibra, and the English “Nightmares and Daydreams A.C. 2020,” published by SelfMadeHero.
The English version of the book can be ordered here.
I’m pleased to let you know that my poster for “Hedda Gabler” for the JDP-Yugoslav Drama Theatre in Belgrade, Serbia, just received PRINT Magazine’s Second Place Award in the Poster category.
Here is where you can see more of my theater posters.
I’m pleased to let you know that my Smiley-moji comic balloons have been printed on hoodies for faculty members and will soon be available for students at Algebra Bernays University in Croatia.
Founded in 1998, Algebra Bernays University is part of the largest private educational organization in the Republic of Croatia and the region. With a main campus in Zagreb and satellite campuses in more than 20 cities across Croatia, Algebra Bernays University is committed to a mission of opening doors for both Croatian and international students, empowering them with skills and knowledge to forge globally competitive careers in digital technologies.
Photos by Krešimir Pletikosa.
My poster design and illustrations for the play MaMa, at the JDP-Yugoslav Drama Theatre in Belgrade, Serbia. MaMa is a stage project based on the autobiographical book My Life, Maga Magazinović, and historical material from her life. Jelena Zablaćanski is the author and performer of the play.
Maga Magazinović is the originator of modern dance in Serbia, a pioneer of feminism who really lived it at the beginning of the 20th century. The central theme is motherhood. Through the life story of Maga Magazinović, the theatrical and life postulates that this exceptional woman set even in the time in which she lived, the play MaMa raises the question of what has actually changed in the life of a woman and mother in these hundred and more years.
