Zoran Smiljanić

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Zoran Smiljanić (2008)

Zoran Smiljanić (born January 15, 1961 in Postojna , Yugoslavia ) is a Slovenian illustrator , comic book writer , caricaturist , graphic artist , scriptwriter and publicist .

life and work

Zoran Smiljanić graduated from the secondary school for graphic design in Ljubljana and studied at the Pedagogical Academy there. His first published comic strip, Folk Against Rock (1981), about the rise of turbo-folk, shows him as a critical and committed author. His comic Hiša Metoda Trobca (1983, "The House of Metod Trobec") blends the story of a Slovenian serial killer and sex offender with the fictional story of two Nazis and was received beyond Slovenia (the Serbian translation was published in Belgrade in 1985). The “Partisan Western” in 1945 , which appeared in the student magazine Katedra in 1986 and whose main characters are three Chetniks who tried to make their way to the West after the end of the war and “kill a few more truckloads of partisans” on the way, was officially criticized as completely inappropriate Smiljanić arranged to publish from now on under the pseudonym Vittorio de la Croce . Smiljanić also caused a stir as a designer of posters, some of which aroused the displeasure of the central authorities in Belgrade .

Between 1987 and 1991 , Smiljanić published the serial Hardfuckers in the magazine Mladina (partly with co-scenarist Marijan Pušavec ) , which examined the events surrounding Slovenia's aspirations for independence and projected the plot into the following year. The trilogy ultimately comprising more than 200 pages was released as an album in 1999 and was reissued in 2011. The nostalgic comic 1991 , “an ode to the little man who believed in brotherhood and unity”, which appeared in sequels in Mladina in 1992, is about a soldier of the Yugoslav People's Army who slept through the retreat from Slovenia. The main character of the action-packed comics 1943 (1995–1996), which was back at the time of the Second World War, is a Slovenian slide and war profiteer who collaborates with all sides and wages his private war with his gang in the manner of Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch . Between 1993 and 1998 the serial Družinske zgodbe (“Family Stories ”) was created, which was released as an album in 2000 and, according to Iztok Sitar, is a bow to Alfred Hitchcock .

Together with Marijan Pušavec, Smiljanić created the five-album, monumental graphic novel Meksikajnarji (German translation Die Mexikaner , from the Slovenian by Erwin Köstler , from 2018), which deals with the events in Mexico from 1864 to 1867 by paralleling the stories of the Emperor Maximilians I of Mexico and that of the failed student Anton Brus, a Slovenian desperado who can be recruited as a volunteer for the imperial army. The story, drawn in an elaborate technique (tempera / watercolor and colored pencil / ink), blends elements of the historical and adventure genres and is based on extensive research, both as to what the details reproduced in the drawings (locations, uniforms, technical details, etc.) and, as regards the historical realities reproduced in the scenario.

Zoran Smiljanić's comics show a strong affinity for film, which is expressed in the design of the panels (zoom effects, suspense, cinematic quotations). The draftsman's affinity for cinema is also expressed in film reviews, articles and books that identify Smiljanić as a profound connoisseur. He was himself u. a. as a writer of storyboards and as an actor involved in various film productions.

On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the end of the war in 1945, Smiljanić released the album Spomini in sanje Kristine B. Ljubljana 1941–1945 (“The memories and dreams of Kristina B. Ljubljana 1941–1945”) together with the scenarist Blaž Vurnik , in which the growing up (fictional) Kristine Babnik is being treated at the time of the occupation of Ljubljana. Together with Marijan Pušavec he designed the graphic novel Zadnji let Tonija Mrlaka (2017, “The Last Flight of Toni Mrlak”), which deals with the ten-day military conflict after Slovenia declared independence in the summer of 1991. In cooperation with the Slovenian Blaz Vurnik exponent of modern art, was created to mark the 100th anniversary of the death Ivan Cankar , the album Ivan Cankar. Podobe iz življenja ("Ivan Cankar. Pictures from Life"), a biography of the author enriched with text and quotes from letters.

Zoran Smiljanić belongs to the so-called third generation of Slovenian comic book authors who, shaped by the aesthetics of the underground, published from 1987 in the critical magazine Mladina around the editor and journalist Ivo Štandeker. Her work is characterized by political commitment and sophisticated provocation, vivid depiction of physical violence and unbridled sexuality. Smiljanić, who combines current political engagement with a distinctly epic approach to (contemporary) historical topics, published around 800 panels in Mladina alone, designed around 20 front pages and contributed numerous illustrations. He is one of the most productive and respected draftsmen and scenario artists in Slovenia.

Publications

Comics, graphic novels (selection)

  • Folk against rock . Glasilo KLG, 1981.
  • Slava vojvodine Kranjske . Glasilo KLG, 1982.
  • Hiša Metoda Trobca . Glasilo KLG, 1983.
  • Balada o treh baletkah in dveh vojakih . Glasilo KLG, 1984.
  • 1945 . Katedra, 1986-1987.
  • Hardfuckers 1-3. Mladina, 1987-1991.
  • 1991; Zadnja vojna . Mladina, 1992.
  • Družinske zgodbe : Mladina, 1993–1998.
  • 1943. Mladina, 1995-1996.
  • Zadnja vojna . Mladina, 1999.
  • Meksikajnarji 1-5. Miramar. Ljubljana: Umco, 2005–2016. (Together with Marijan Pušavec.)
  • Hardfuckers . Ljubljana: book, 2011.
  • Tomaž Lavrič (ed.): Slovenski klasiki v stripu . Ljubljana: Mladina & Forum, 2011.
  • Družinske zgodbe. Ljubljana: book, 2012.
  • Izhod, promocijski strip za film . Ljubljana: Influenza doo / Influenz Pictures, 2013.
  • Idila, promocijski strip za film . Ljubljana: Blade Production, 2015.
  • Spomini in sanje Kristine B. Ljubljana 1941–1945 (together with Blaž Vurnik.). Ljubljana: Muzej in galerije mesta Ljubljane, 2015.
  • Memories and dreams of Kristina B . Ljubljana 1941-1945. Ljubljana: Muzej in galerije mesta Ljubljana, 2015.
  • Zadnji let Tonija Mrlaka . Mladina, 2017. (Together with Marijan Pušavec.)
  • Zadnji let Tonija Mrlaka . Ljubljana: Book, 2017. (Together with Marijan Pušavec)
  • Ivan Cankar. Podobe iz življenja . (Together with Blaž Vurnik.) Ljubljana: Forum in Muzej in galerije mesta Ljubljane, 2018.

Comics, Graphic novels (German)

Books

  • Let's go! Why not? Divji filmi in divje življenje Sama Peckinpaha. (Together with Marcel Štefančič jr.) Ljubljana: Fun, 1998.
  • Spider-man ali stripovski junaki na filmskem platnu. Ljubljana: Umco, 2002.

swell

  • Tomaž Lavrič (ed.): Slovenski klasiki v stripu! Ljubljana: Mladina, Forum 2009, 3 2016.
  • Iztok Sitar: Zgodovina slovenskega stripa 1927-2017 . Ljubljana: UMco, 2017.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Iztok Sitar: Zgodovina slovenskega stripa 1927-2017, p. 84.
  2. ↑ Iztok Sitar: Zgodovina slovenskega stripa 1927-2017, pp. 84-85.
  3. ↑ Marijan Pušavec: O Hardfuckersih, Meksikajnarjih in Svetovljanki iz province ali Kako sem se (z) našel v slovenskem stripu. In: Mentor 37/2 (maj 2016), pp. 68–75.
  4. ↑ a b Iztok Sitar: Zgodovina slovenskega stripa 1927-2017, p. 85.
  5. ↑ Rezultati iskanja hardfuckers :: COBISS + , accessed on August 5, 2019
  6. ↑ a b Iztok Sitar: Zgodovina slovenskega stripa 1927-2017, p. 87.
  7. ^ Zoran Smiljanić: Jaz pa pojdem v Meksiko. Zoran Smiljanič, ilustrator, stripovski avtor in encikloped vesterna po sledeh Slovencev v vojski mehiškega cesarja Maksimilijana Habsburškega-. In: Mladina 30 (July 25, 2005), pp. 54-57.
  8. ↑ Svobodna si. Odloci se. (2000) - Full Cast & Crew - IMDb
  9. ↑ Jure Trampuš: stripi Protivojni . In: Mladina 7 (February 16, 2018), pp. 64–65.
  10. ^ Iztok Sitar: Zgodovina slovenskega stripa 1927-2017, pp. 78-83.
personal data
SURNAME Smiljanić, Zoran
ALTERNATIVE NAMES de la Croce, Vittorio (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav and Slovenian comic book author and caricaturist
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Postojna