Archive for: Текстови објављени у часопису Култура на српском накнадно преведени на стране језике

The paper deals with the influence of Petar Kočić’s (1877–1916)literary opus based on a daily comic strip David Štrbac created by Miro Mlađenović (1949–2007) and published on the pages of Banja Luka newspaper Glas (Glas Srpske), from 1973 to 2007. This comic strip sublimates the humor and satire featured in the classical Serbian drama Badger on trial (Jazavac pred sudom), while skillfully connecting and actualizing Kočić’s literary world, situating it in the present age.

Writer Stevan Sremac (1885–1906) “had spent the best eleven years of his life in Niš” working as a grammar school teacher. Some of his best works were created in the city on the Nišava river. Among others, it was there that he wrote “The Elemir Ball: an Epic in Ten Poems”, for which he and Stevan Nikšić Lala (1853–1938), a professor and caricaturist,have also engraved “pictures in the text”. With a lot of talent and spirit, Sremac solved the problem of dramatic display of the sequence of events, using language of the comics (and even of the graphic novels)to visually decompose and illustrate the epic. Before he would begin to scribble verses, he would make a 21.8×13.8cm sketch using pencil on paper, breaking the story into eight separate scenes and two fields,thus actually using the embodied form of the contemporary medium of comics.

This work is the first part of an excursion into the history of comics in Russia. The preconditions for the emergence of graphic stories as a genre of newspaper and magazine publications in the Russian Empire and Soviet Russia are considered. Some publications and activities of historical figures who played a special role in the formation of this phenomenon in Russian culture are considered.