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.
The book's foreword was written by Steven Heller and Marko Golub.
'Mirko Ilić stopped drawing comics in 1979, having played one of the key roles in Novi Kvadrat, the most important comic book collective in Croatia and Yugoslavia, to devote himself to illustration and design. After moving to New York in the mid-1980s, he achieved an extremely successful international career working as an illustrator and designer for some of the most important magazines and newspapers in the world. A return to comics, his first love, did not seem likely until the coronavirus pandemic and lockdown broke out in 2020, when the first panels of the visual essay "After Covid 2020" were created. Fibra is extremely proud to present them to you, collected in this book.’
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