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Subject: Stripburek - call for contribution
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 13:13:25 +0100


STRIPBURGER
C/O STRIP CORE, FORUM LJUBLJANA, METELKOVA 6/1, SI - 1000 LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA
tel.: +386 1 4344094, 2319662, fax.: + 386 1 4338074, e-mail: burger@kud-fp.si

http://www.ljudmila.org/stripcore/com.htm


STRIPBUREK #2

INVITATION

The editorial team of the Stripburger magazine is proud to announce a call for 
contribution of material for the STRIPBUREK #2, the new anthology of short comic 
stories by Eastern and Central European authors.

After the invasion of American, UK, French and Japanese comics, Stripburger in 
1996 decided to introduce to the English speaking audience the alternative comic 
artists from the former socialist block. The result of our work was STRIPBUREK, 
that was relesed in 1997. The content of the 164 pages was a selection according 
to the editorial concept of Stripburger, as well as the response to our call for 
colaboration and investigation in the field. The variety of author's approaches, 
drawing styles and genres is very wide and some works are close to the 
mainstream, but we were very careful in order to keep the material inside the 
borders of alternative comics. We firmly believe that each artist represented in 
this book deserves your attention! Stripburek is though not claimed to be in any 
way a representative pattern of the world of easterneuropean comics, but had 
given some taste of our climate. Stripburek featured artists from following 
countries: Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, 
Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Macedonia, Poland, Russia, Slovenia, Ukraine and 
Yugoslavia. Each country was also introduced by an essay describing the comics 
scene in the country and featured contacts of magazines and artists. We 
discovered that in the majority of the cases the comic culture seems to be in 
its pre-natal stages or is ignored by public and therefore very hard to be 
discovered. That is, we believe, also the reason why there were no artists nor 
scene reports from Bulgaria, Romania, Slovak Republic, Latvia, Moldova, and 
Belarus... We want to present also the authors from those countries in this 
edition, so, please, help us to spread the word about Stripburek in those parts 
of the world. We are also looking for writers who are interested to write an 
essay about the state of comics culture in their respective countries!

Stripburek is due to be released in September 2001. The issue will be done in 
English with the aim to present the selected art production world-wide. With the 
issue we also want to give the artists a chance to see what's happening on the 
comics scene in other countries and encourage them to cooperate with artist and 
publishers from other countries. In past few years through our magazine called 
Stripburger (you can check it out on the web: 
www.ljudmila.org/stripcore/com.htm), a lot of artists and publishers from former 
Yugoslavian countries and some other countries have learned of each other and 
had started to cooperate.

The first version of Stripburek is out of print, so we can't send you a sample, 
but you can check it on the internet htttp://www.ljudmila.org/stripcore/burek/. 
Each contributor of the Stripburek #2 will receive 2 authors copy and some of 
Stripburger magazine back issues!!!

Stripburek #1 was presented on several international festivals in Europe, on the 
ICAF in Washington (USA) and reviewed in several comics and other magazines. We 
will give our best to promote the Stripburek #2 and present it to wider public. 
The selected artists will be also asked to send originals in case of exhibition 
on international festivals.

Let us give you some technical and dead-line information for the end. Send us 
good photocopies or tif/gif by e-mail or on CDs (PC format, please, 600 dpi for 
black-white, 300 dpi for greyscale):

address: Stripburger, Metelkova 6, SI-1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia
e-mail: burger?kud-fp.si or core?kud-fp.si

pages: from 1 to 6
format: A4
colour: just black and white!
Deadline: 15th April!!!!

Distinctive Eastern European flavor illustrations also welcomed!!!


Some of the featured artists in the first Stripburek edition: Aleksandar Zograf, 
Sa? Mihajlowich, Wostok, Ilia Kitup, Danil Filipov Bojan Red?i?, Darko Macan, 
Danijel ?e?elj, Jakob Klemen?i?, Andrej ?tular, Igor Baranko, Milorad Krsti?, 
Peter Novak, Tereza Vrabcova, Amir Idrizovi?, Shpend Bengu ...

Some reviews of the previous Stripburek edition:


>Stripburek  -
Enormous anthology that grew out of *Stripburger*, one of Eastern Europe's most 
ambitious comics. The work of  48 artists, spanning the countries between the 
Baltics in the North and Albania in the South is represented, most of it in 
English for the first time.  Milorad Krstic's watercolor paintings looked like 
they were out of a children's book of horror. Comparing his work to Steadman is 
a poor comparison, but it's the closest thing I can conjure. Other favorites 
were Ivana Filipovic's look at her neighborhood, Aleksandar Zograf's tribute to 
laughter, Danijel Zezelj's adaptation of *The Stranger*, and Alexandra's 
Czubek's modern vampire stories. In addition to all the art, there are 
introductions to the scene of each country. I particularly enjoyed the history 
of Russian comics and the look at Hungarian avante-garde. This is a rare 
opportunity to dive head first into the comics of Eastern Europe.
R. Seth Friedman, Factsheet Five, P.O. Box 170099, San Francisco, CA  94117 
seth@factsheet5.com, http://www.factsheet5.com

>...Now that I've established my reprehensible ethnocentricity, I should add 
that if the consumption of this fine comestible has anything to do with the 
quality of the material presented in _Stripburek_, I would be inclined to 
recommend it's virtues to all other cartoonists in the strongest possible terms. 
_Stripburek_ is an incredible cornucopia* of cartooning possibilities and 
accomplishments and has the signal virtue of being really, really cheap - 
$US6.95 for 160+ b&w pages with a colour cover.  What more could you ask?
 The collection divides cartoonists into groups by nationality (Slovenian, 
Croatian, Hungarian, what have you) and each section is preceded by an overview 
of varying lengths of the history and current status of the comics scene in the 
relevant country.  Some of these are very short and amount to no more than 
'there is no real comics scene in my country, boo hoo!' but others - Darko 
Macan's excellent piece on Croatia, for example - are thorough, considered and 
informative. There's always plenty to learn - we discover that comics have a 
long and apparently rich history in Hungary but that the speech bubble has never 
really caught on there.  Even more remarkable is the revelation that the leading 
comics creators in Estonia have arisen from school of avant-garde painters. In 
all cases, assertions are backed up by the strongest possible evidence, actual 
comics.
Desmond Brice <Desmondb@tepapa.govt.nz>

>Stripburger - comics from the other Europe
One of the most compelling and useful aspects of the book is that each nation is 
complemented with an introductory essay that provides some context for the 
comics which immediately follow it. .For those wishing to explore more fully the 
world of Eastern European cartooning suggested by Stripburek, there are a number 
of contact addresses for individual artists and publishers listed throughout the 
volume. Despite its many mis-steps, Stripburek is surely the best single 
introduction to the world of comics in Eastern Europe. The anthology itself is 
well-packaged, clear and inexpensive and it does sit nicely alongside the best 
efforts of many of the artists currently working in the mini-comics scenes 
internationally. 
Bart Beaty, The Comics Journal #204

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