"Nightmares and Daydreams: A.C. 2020" Opening Night

I’m pleased to share with you a few photos from the opening of Nightmares and Daydreams: A.C. 2020, a show promoting the publication of my new book of the same title. The show was held at The Coningsby Gallery with the support of the owner, Andrew Coningsby, and the book’s publisher, Emma Hayley, of SelfMadeHero.

Also in attendance was celebrated illustrator and comic artist David McKean, who wrote the book's afterword.

The book is available now in the U.K. and will ship worldwide on September 29th. You can pre-order the book on Amazon here. 

 

"Nightmares and Daydreams: A.C. 2020" in London bookstores

I am pleased to announce that my book Nightmares and Daydreams: A.C. 2020, published by SelfMadeHero, with a foreword by Steven Heller and an afterword by Dave McKean, went on sale last Friday, September 5th, in London bookstores.

Here are a couple of photos from Forbidden Planet in 179 Shaftesbury Avenue and GOSH Comics in 1 Berwick Street.

Starting on September 29th, 2026, the book will be on sale in the US and can already be ordered through Amazon: https://shorturl.at/XBGgR

 

"Nightmares and Daydreams: A.C. 2020" Exhibition

I’m pleased to share images with you from my exhibition, Nightmares and Daydreams: A.C. 2020, promoting my new book with the same title, published by SelfMadeHero, at The Coningsby Gallery in London on September 3rd. 

 

Nightmares and Daydreams: A.C. 2020 Available For Pre-Order

I am pleased to let you know that, I’ve just received the first copies of my series of visual essays “A.C. 2020,” which has been collected and published for the first time for a worldwide audience as “Nightmares and Daydreams: A.C. 2020.”

Featuring a new foreword by Steven Heller and a new afterword by Dave McKean, the new English-language edition by U.K.-based publisher SelfMadeHero will be available exclusively in hardcover. The series was originally published in Croatian in 2025. 

You can pre-order the book on Amazon here, which will release on September 3rd in the U.K. and September 29th in North America. 

 

 

Nightmares and Daydreams: A.C. 2020, launch & exhibition

 

I am pleased to share with you the press release for the graphic novel launch & exhibition for the upcoming international release of my book Nightmares and Daydreams: A.C. 2020.

It will be held at the Coningsby Gallery in collaboration with SelfMadeHero, the book's publisher.

"A.C. 2020" in the Java Gallery in Sarajevo,

On Friday, May 22, organized by the "POPUP!2026" festival in the Java Gallery in Sarajevo, was the opening of the exhibition of pages from my visual essay "A.C. 2020".

"Mirko Ilić: The Cuts"

I am pleased to let you know that on April 24th I hosted the “second opening” and a conversation about “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 was organised by the FLUID Design Forum and curated by Ana Matić & Srdja Dragovic.

 
“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.”