Aleksandar Zograf

Aleksandar Zograf (actually Saša Rakezić , * 1963 in Pančevo ) is a Serbian comic artist and author .

Career

Aleksandar Zograf started his career in 1986 and today works for the weekly newspaper Vreme . He is the creator of works like "Psychonaut", "Okean Iznenadjenja" and "Život pod sankcijama"; the latter deals with the economic sanctions against the rest of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Zograf has also dealt with the NATO attacks on Serbia in 1999 and artistically processed his experiences in "Regards from Serbia", a series of autobiographical comics during the bombing of his hometown ".

Aleksandar Zograf has now published numerous works in translations for internationally renowned comic publishers ( Fantagraphics Books , L'Association , Jochen Enterprises ). In 2002 an exhibition of his work took place in the Cartoon Art Museum in California .

Aleksandar Zograf is a signatory of the 2017 declaration on the common language of Croats , Serbs , Bosniaks and Montenegrins .

Zograf lives in Pančevo .

Works (selection)

Aleksandar Zograf: Psychonaut No. 1 . JOCHEN enterprises; 1st edition (1998), ISBN 3-930486-42-3 , ISBN 978-3-930486-42-7 .
Aleksandar Zograf, Chris Ware: Regards from Serbia: A Cartoonist's Diary of a Crisis in Serbia. Top Shelf Prod, February 7, 2007, ISBN 1-891830-42-2 , ISBN 978-1-891830-42-6 .
Aleksandar Zograf (Author), Terry Jones (Introduction): Bulletins from Serbia: E-Mails and Cartoon Strips from Beyond the Front Line . Slab-O-Concrete Publications; Edition: illustrated edition, December 1999, ISBN 1-899866-31-0 , ISBN 978-1-899866-31-1 .
Aleksandar Zograf (author + illustrator): Partisan mail . Bahoe Books 2020

Web links

Website by Aleksandar Zograf
Literature by and about Aleksandar Zograf in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Oliver im Masche: Stuttgart im Comic. Postcards from the welcome city. Stuttgarter Zeitung , January 9, 2016, accessed on October 20, 2016 .
^ Susan Tomaselli: Aleksandar Zograf, Regards from Serbia, A Cartoonist's Diary of a Crisis in Serbia (Top Shelf Productions, January 2007). 3: AM Magazine, June 1, 2007, accessed October 20, 2016 .
^ Katrin Lechler: Comic artist Aleksandar Zograf: A Holocaust victim as a drawn heroine. Deutschlandradio Kultur , February 27, 2015, accessed on October 20, 2016 .

personal data
SURNAME	Zograf, Aleksandar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Rakezic, Sasa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Serbian cartoonist and author
DATE OF BIRTH	1963
PLACE OF BIRTH	Pančevo

[1] Oliver im Masche: Stuttgart im Comic. Postcards from the welcome city. Stuttgarter Zeitung , January 9, 2016, accessed on October 20, 2016 .

[2] Susan Tomaselli: Aleksandar Zograf, Regards from Serbia, A Cartoonist's Diary of a Crisis in Serbia (Top Shelf Productions, January 2007). 3: AM Magazine, June 1, 2007, accessed October 20, 2016 .

[3] Katrin Lechler: Comic artist Aleksandar Zograf: A Holocaust victim as a drawn heroine. Deutschlandradio Kultur , February 27, 2015, accessed on October 20, 2016 .