[:en]Promotion of strip albums Drako 17 – 27.01.2018.SKC

BIG HALL

promotion of strip albums (System Comics, Belgrade, 2017)
Participants in the discussion: Aleksa Gajić, Igor Marković and domestic comic theorists
Aleksa Gajić (Belgrade, 1974) is our celebrated comic author, illustrator, director and animator. He graduated from the Faculty of Applied Arts and Design in the class of professor Rastko Ciric, with already famous, color comic album Technotise. Since 1996 he has been a regular contributor to the Politics Entertainer, and since 2000 he has been working for the publishing house Soleil of France, as a draftsman of the series “Le Fléau des Dieux”, in which, according to the script, Valery Mansz published six colored albums that are experiencing immense popularity in France and Serbia and are being translated into the United States and six other countries in the world. Apart from these, in Serbia, he also published the album Technotise with screenwriter Dark Grkinić, and later he directed and directed the animated film Tehnotajz: Edit and Me. In addition, Gajic is the author and short animated film The Rise and Fall of Art. He has also published a collection of short, formally innovative comics: In Screws, Skrepbuk, Flesh strip. He illustrated several books and magazines in collaboration with many publishers and design studios. He is the author of a small number of music and economic propaganda videos. He achieved significant results by dealing with graphic design (pamphlets, invitations, newspaper ads and advertisements, calendars, posters). He is a participant of several independent and group exhibitions in our country. Aleksa Gajić is considered one of our most eminent artists in general and certainly the most important comic strip authors in our country.
The re-collaboration with French scriptwriter Valerija Mancen is also the new album Drako – The Thirteenth Horde, which Gajic’s Serbian publisher System Comics published in late 2017 for the domestic readership audience.
“Under the authority of the supreme Kraken, Zarkelha, the Thirteen horde of dragon-warriors conquerively destroys the Orkis planet, further confirming the supremacy of the empire. However, emperor Gankred IV and his daughter reveal a gloomy prophecy. What if the mighty Kraken, being the imperial son-in-law, rebels against his ruler?
The prophecy confirms that it is necessary to react quickly, before returning these brave fighters to their mighty dragons. Whatever the outcome was …
A dear, young and brave warrior-bazilik is looking forward to returning home to tell the younger brothers about the exploits, to delight the fiancé and to honor his parents. It is necessary to receive from the Zarkelh hands the future dragon’s egg during a solemn ceremony …
Those who live from the Fire of the Dragon, will be killed by fire! ”
(from the interview with the French edition, translated by Ivana Budisavljević)