Friday, April 10, 2020

Survival

I was introduced to Les Lilley by Ervin Rustemagic in 1978 at the Lucca festival in Italy. We socialized there for a couple days together with Joe Kubert, Dino Battaglia, José Antonio Muñoz, Bobby London, Sergio Toppi, and Hugo Pratt.

Three months later through Irwin, I received a one page scenario for comics title Survival. I liked the scenario  a couple months later I drew a six page comic and I sent it to Les. He was quite surprised because he originally intended that the page which he sent to me was just a draft for a comic. Because of my poor english, I had misunderstood. Luckily he loved the comic as I had drawn it.

In 1980, that comic was published in Heavy Metal magazine among other places. That same year Heavy Metal, bought rights to turn the comic into an animation for their Heavy Metal animated movie. Unfortunately turned out that the drawing was too complicated for the technology of animation at that time.







Thursday, April 9, 2020

“The Seekers" by John M. Burns and Les Lilley

Here is original art of The Seekers by John M. Burns, which I recently acquired.

The Seekers by John M. Burns (1938) and Les Lilley (1924-1998), ran from 1966 to 1971 in The Daily Sketch. And as you probably noticed, this was an attempt at getting some of that Modesty Blaise dollars. Probably that was one of reasons that in 1978 Burns succeeded Enrique Romero in drawing Modesty Blaise.

On another note, I collaborated with Les Lilley in 1979 on the comic Survival.



Wednesday, April 8, 2020

"Zabranjeno pusenje" in MoMA collection

My design of the cover for the band Zabranjeno pusenje (No Smoking) 45 vinyl record in permanent collection of MoMA museum in New York.
More posts about my works in MoMA collection here and here.







Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Fred Fredericks "Mandrake the Magician" comic

Still collecting pieces of my youth. 
Just got myself a daily comic strip by Fred Fredericks Mandrake the Magician from  9. 7. 1967.  
I was reading this comic when I was very, very young. I especially liked how Fredericks drew Mandrake's tuxedo.



Monday, March 9, 2020

"The Travelling Troupe Šopalović" The Poster and Billboard


My poster and billboard design for Yugoslav Drama Theater in Belgrade, Serbia's production of Putujuće pozorište Šopalović (The Travelling Troupe Šopalović) written by Ljubomir Simović.

The play takes place during World War II, a traveling theatre company arrives in the occupied Serbian town of Užice.  In the square where the company was supposed to perform, the bodies of murdered people are being displayed, and thats were the story starts.


Saturday, March 7, 2020

"Social Awareness Posters" Workshop

The last day of the Social Awareness Posters workshop with graphic design students from Faculty of Fine Arts and Graphic Design Department at Yeditepe University Istanbul, Turkey.


Workshop coordinators: Associate Prof. Ozlem Mutaf Buyukarman, Associate Prof. Demet Karapinar, and Dr. Gozde Umur. Workshop student assistants: Zeynep Sari, Izel Vesek, Furkan Uzun, and Atilay Askaroglu.

This workshop was made possible with the dedicated effort of Ozlem Mutaf Buyukarman.






Friday, March 6, 2020

"Design from Right to Left" Press

On March 2nd, 2020 I gave a lecture titled "Design from Right to Left" at Yeditepe Üniversitesi Hastanesi in Istanbul, Turkey.

Here are some of the Turkish media coverage of the lecture.