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Crazy Scorpa /
Ludi Škarpa
Damir Urban, Tomislav Torjanac (illustrator)
Croatia Records (HR) 2022.
EN “Torjanac’s depiction of the underwater world sets this book apart from the group of picture books about cute wolves, squirrels, otters and other fluffy animals. Crazy Scorpa takes us to the sea ghetto.”
– Valentina Sertić, glazba.hr
“With his draughtsmanship, Torjanac elevated [Damir Urban] to those heavens where all our childhoods are permanently unfinished, and the only real world is that of imagination.”
– Miljenko Jergović
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HR “Torjančev prikaz podvodnog svijeta ovu knjigu izdvaja iz grupe slikovnica o slatkim vukovima, vjevericama, vidrama i drugim mekanim životinjama. Ludi Škarpa vodi nas u morski geto.”
– Valentina Sertić, glazba.hr
“Tomislav Torjanac svojim je crtežom uzdigao [Damira Urbana] do onih nebesa u kojima su trajno nedovršena sva naša djetinjstva, a svijet mašte jedini je stvaran.”
– Miljenko Jergović
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| Crazy Scorpa picture book is the first children’s book written by musician Damir Urban, inspired by his song of the same name. The story follows Frankie the cleaner fish, who takes on someone else’s identity in order to climb the social ladder in the fish world. Frankie impersonates Crazy Scorpa, a fish about whom scary stories circulate, although no one has ever actually seen it. The picture book tells of how little Frankie coped in this role and who he met in the deep-sea adventure. |
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Slikovnica Ludi Škarpa prva je knjiga za djecu iz pera glazbenika Damira Urbana, nadahnuta njegovom istoimenom pjesmom. Priča prati ribu-čistača Franu, koji preuzima tuđi identitet kako bi se mogao izboriti za bolji status u ribljem svijetu. Frane se lažno predstavlja kao Ludi Škarpa, riba o kojoj kruže strašne priče, iako je nitko nikada nije vidio. Slikovnica govori o tome kako se se maleni Frane snašao u toj ulozi i koga je sve susreo u dubokomorskoj pustolovini. |
| Crazy Scorpa, front and back cover |
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Ludi Škarpa, naslovnica i zaslovnica |
| The idea of this story was conceived by Istok Zola, Damir Urban’s son, one morning, on his way to kindergarten. |
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ldeju ove priče osmislio je Istok Zola, sin Damira Urbana, jednoga jutra, na putu do vrtića. |
| Crazy Scorpa, pages 2-3 |
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Ludi Škarpa, stranice 2-3 |
| The process of illustrating the picture book was, for me, very unusual – I used a series of drawings and sketches drawn by Urban as a template, according to which I painted the illustrations, in mixed media on pieces of old cardboard, trying to deviate as little as possible from Urban’s original drawings. |
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Proces ilustriranja oslikovnice bio je, za mene, vrlo neobičan – niz crteža i skica koje je nacrtao Damir Urban koristio sam kao predložak prema kojemu sam naslikao ilustracije, kombiniranom tehnikom na komadima starog kartona, nastojeći pritom što manje odstupati od izvornih Urbanovih crteža. |
| Crazy Scorpa, pages 4-5 |
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Ludi Škarpa, stranice 4-5 |
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