I am happy to share that my posters Oedipus, My Husband, The Tin Drum, Uncle Vanya, and The Loser, created for the JDP-Yugoslav Drama Theater in Belgrade, Serbia, have been included in the Europe Theater Poster Design Exhibition.
The Europe Theater Poster Design Exhibition is part of the Visual Design Art Week at the Chengdu Academy of Fine Arts and the Sichuan Conservatory of Music in China. The exhibition opened on October 12th, 2024, coinciding with the opening ceremony of the C-IDEA Conference 2024 Chengdu.
I am grateful to the curator, Li Xu, and the co-curator, Ivan Mišić, for inviting me to be a part of this exhibition.
You can see more of my JDP posters here.
My recent acquisition—the daily comics of Modesty Blaise by Neville Colvin from 1984. I now have quite a few Modesty Blaisecomics in my collection, and I think from now on, I’ll start paying attention to some other comic heroes from my youth.
You can see my other Modesty Blaise originals here.
My artwork on the posters and merchandise of Teeth—a new play at New World Stages, NYC. The poster is art directed by Nicky Lindeman at Spotco.
Dawn O’Keefe is an evangelical Christian teen with a powerful secret not even she understands—when men violate her, her body bites back. Literally. From Pulitzer Prize and Tony winner Michael R. Jackson and Anna K. Jacobs, Teeth, based on the cult classic film of the same name, is a fierce, rapturous and savagely entertaining new musical crackling with irrepressible desire and ancient rage—a dark comedy conjuring the legend of one girl whose sexual curse is also her salvation.
You can see more images of the project here.
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.
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.
'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.
You can see more pages of this essay series here.
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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.
My recent acquisition, a page from 'Los Dias Del Gitano', a comic by Enrique Breccia, published in Skorpio #30 in 1994.
The front page of the Science Times section of The New York Times features my illustration. The illustration is for the article titled "An Old Clash Heats Up Over Oppenheimer's Red Ties", written by William J. Broad and art directed by Rodrigo Honeywell.
You can see my other illustrations for The New York Times here.
I just acquired this daily comic of Flash Gordon by Dan Barry from November 9th, 1965. It perfectly fits with the other two daily comics from the same story, which I acquired earlier.
My latest acquisition, Bob Lubbers (as Bob Lewis) "Secret Agent Corrigan" daily comic strip from 1966. Secret Agent Phil Corrigan stars in this aviation-themed adventure alongside Miss Perkins. It was created in ink over graphite with Duotone chemical shading board.
This strip has a bonus: Bob often included rough pencil corrections or sketches on the back. In this case, it's interesting to see how he changed the airplane's direction, creating a more dramatic composition.
This isn't the first Bob Lubbers "Secret Agent" comic strip in my collection; I actually own quite a few. See here.
I also have his "Robin Malone" and "Tarzan" strips. See here.
I really appreciate his stylization and the balance between realism and cartoonish drawing. As my friend Zoran Djukanovic said, "He is very, very talented. There is such ease in his heart and his hand."
