The Festival of Illustration in Fužine, Croatia.
You're invited.

I just finished illustrating, hand-lettering and designing a picture book titled The Little Girl and the Giant, written by an award-winning Slovenian author Neli Kodrič Filipić. It's a harrowing and yet liberating story about pain, sorrow and fear being passed on from generation to generation until someone finds the strength to release them. The Slovenian and the Croatian edition are to be published next month by Mladinska knjiga (as Punčka in velikan) and Mozaik knjiga (as Djevojčica i div), respectfully. The English edition will, hopefully, follow soon.


^ The Little Girl and the Giant (cover) | oil/digital | 72x50cm |


^ The Little Girl and the Giant (back cover detail)


^ The Little Girl and the Giant (pages 04-05) | oil/digital | 57x40cm |


^ The Little Girl and the Giant (pages 06-07) | oil/digital | 57x40cm |



^ The Little Girl and the Giant (pages 12-13) | oil/digital | 57x40cm |

I’m one of twenty artists involved with the Utopian Tales from Weimar, a bi-lingual illustrated collection of fairy tales and fables from German Weimar Republic (1919-1933), edited and translated by Jack Zipes. It features stories by political activists who deliberately transformed traditional German fairy tales into utopian narratives and social commentary. The publisher of Utopian Tales from Weimar is The Caseroom Press – a UK-based independent publisher with an interest in art, languages and poetry – whose books “are almost art objects” (as put by The Times). As for the release date... well, here’s hoping it’s sometime this year.

The tale I illustrated is The Little King and the Sun (Der kleine König und die Sonne), written by Edwin Hoernle in 1920.


^ The Little King and the Sun | pencil/digital | 42x30cm |

[HR] U četvrtak, 16. travnja 2009. u 18:30, držat ću predavanje/ predstavljanje u sklopu Salona Matice hrvatske. Predavanje će se održati u palači Matice hrvatske, Strossmayerov trg 4, Zagreb. Tema je "Sprega riječi i slike u knjizi za odrasle: ilustrirani Pijev život". Predavanje će biti popraćeno PowerPoint prezentacijom, nakon čega publika postavlja pitanja, a zatim slijedi mali domjenak. Predavanje je otvoreno za javnost, ulaz besplatan.
Pozvani ste, nadam se da se vidimo.

[EN] On Thursday April 16, at 6:30 PM, I'm giving a lecture on "A marriage of words and pictures in literature: the illustrated Life of Pi". It is a part of the Salon Matice hrvatske event held at Palača Matice hrvatske, Strossmayerov trg 4, Zagreb, Croatia. Following the lecture (which will be in Croatian) accompanied by a PowerPoint presentation, there will be a short Q&A (in Croatian and, if needed, in English) and a light buffet after that. The event is open to the public, admission is free.
You're invited, hope to see you there.

The German edition of Life of Pi: Illustrated, published by Fischer.

The Hungarian edition of Life of Pi: Illustrated, published by Európa.