The Cuts Open Now

I am pleased to let you know that today is the opening of “Mirko Ilić: The Cuts,” a show of my illustrations and comics at the Cultural Centre of the Old Royal Capital Cetinje in Montenegro.

The show is hosted by the Fluid Design Forum and curated by Ana Matić & Srđa Dragović. The exhibition will be open until May 8th.

“The exhibition The Cuts presents a carefully composed cross-section of the comic and illustration work of Mirko Ilić, bringing into direct dialogue works created within the context of Yugoslav, European, and American print media of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s with his most recent comic series A.C. 2020, developed at a time when the COVID-19 pandemic became an inescapable frame of everyday life. This is not a retrospective in the conventional sense, but a considered cut — an attempt to trace, through temporal and aesthetic shifts, the continuity of an exceptionally consistent yet never fixed authorial line.”

 

 

Silence=Death at Poster House

Poster House’s new exhibition, “Love & Fury: New York’s Fight Against AIDS,” is now open until September 6th, 2026. The exhibition explores how graphic design shaped New York’s grassroots response to AIDS from 1979 to 2003. Public health campaigns, agitprop, benefit flyers, and club handbills offer more than messages—they map how communities built survival systems from below, often before the state would act.
 

The show features a poster that I donated to Poster House, titled “Silence=Death” by a collective of six gay New Yorkers.  I also donated copies of this poster to the NewYork MOMA and SFMOMA collections.

 

"Richard II" Poster

I am pleased to share with you my poster design for the play by William Shakespeare, "Richard II", at the JDP-Yugoslav Drama Theater in Belgrade, Serbia. The play is directed by Boris Lijesevic.

In "Richard II", anger at a king’s arbitrary rule leads to his downfall—and sets in motion a decades-long struggle for the crown. Richard II is the first of Shakespeare's four plays about the House of Lancaster.

Richard II begins as Richard’s cousin, Henry Bolingbroke, charges Thomas Mowbray with serious crimes, including the murder of the Duke of Gloucester. Bolingbroke’s father, John of Gaunt, privately blames the king for Gloucester’s death. The king banishes both men from England.

When John of Gaunt dies, Richard seizes his possessions to help finance a war in Ireland, thus dispossessing Bolingbroke. Bolingbroke returns to England, quickly gathering support. By the time Richard returns from Ireland, many of his former allies have joined Bolingbroke. Richard abdicates, yielding the crown to Bolingbroke.

Richard is held at Pomfret Castle, and Bolingbroke becomes King Henry IV. A murder plot against him is uncovered and stopped. Richard is murdered by a follower of Henry, crowning his descent from the throne.

You can see more of my theater posters here.

My Lovesick Skateboard Deck Graphic

I’m pleased to let you know that I just received samples of the new skateboard deck from Lovesick Skateboards with my artwork on it.

This is the third collaboration between Aleks Lewandowski at Lovesick and me. You can read more about our first project here.

 

“El Cirque Tragico” by Alberto Breccia

My recent acquisition. An original page from the comic titled
“El Cirque Tragico” by Alberto Breccia, signed and dated 1961. Breccia was one of the most expressive and influential comics artists of the second part of the last century.

Sketch illustrations for the play "Ghosts"

Some proposal sketch illustrations from the past for a poster for the Henrik Ibsen play "Ghosts."  

"After several years abroad, Helena Alving's son, Oswald, has returned home from Paris, carrying with him an untold burden. As Helena works to build an orphanage in honor of her late husband, whose disreputable past has cast a long shadow over the family, she and Oswald become entangled with Pastor Manders, housemaid Regina, and Regina's father Engstrand, each guarding their own private deceptions."

 

 

Sketch illustrations for the play "Epiphany"

Some proposal sketch illustrations from the past for a poster for the play "Epiphany" by Brian Watkins.

 'An uncanny evening. Snow falls softly. An eager host gathers old friends to try and resuscitate a forgotten tradition. But when the guest of honor is unusually late, the group becomes unmoored, craving answers. And there might not be enough wine, or goose, or time to fend off the long-neglected questions that now haunt their souls.'