Aleksandar Zograf is one of the contemporary cartoonists who was asked to illustrate a page of a comics' classic as part of an exhibition entitled Cent Pour Cent in Angouleme, France. 

One hundred comics artists from around the globe were asked to choose a piece by a classic artist from the huge collection in Angouleme's comic art museum (La cite Internationale de la monde designe et la image ). The idea was to comment on or re-imagine a comics page by masters such as Herriman, McCay, Crumb and 97 others. Then, both classic work and the modern comment on it were exhibited next to each other. As his contribution, Zograf created his own take on page by Cliff Sterrett.

Among the participating artists are Ben Katchor, Scott McCloud, Joost Swarte, Carlos Nine, Maja Veselinovic and many others. The works were, of course, visible during the latest edition of the Angouleme International Comics Festival and will be on display there until March 28th, when it will be transferred to Bilbao. In September, the works will be presented at the Paris Bibliothèque Forney (bibliothèque des arts graphiques de la Ville de Paris). See the press release at http://www.citebd.org/IMG/pdf/DP_cent_pour_cent-2.pdf and an info http://www.citebd.org/spip.php?article568    

Zograf created the design for a CD release entitled ‘Kalifonija’ by Rebelstar (a band with an international line-up, singing in Serbian) – for a review of the release (in Serbian) see http://www.popboks.com/tekst.php?ID=7848, My Space page http://www.myspace.com/rebelstarmusic   

An exhibition conceived in Latvia and called ‘The Last Match’, has been transfered to Lisbon's Artside gallery. The opening was held on January 7th - http://chilicomcarne.blogspot.com/2009/08/last-match.html 

A review (in English) of Zograf's Serbian book, "Polovni svet", is available at: http://splintercomics.blogspot.com/2010/01/aleksandar-zograf-second-hand-world.html while another review of the same volume was written by ethnologist/anthropologist Ildiko Erdei (in Serbian): http://pancevackipres.com/sh/100/70/4547/   

On January 21st, Milano's Don Gallery had an opening of an exhibition dedicated to comics and illustrations connected to underground magazines, The Artist and Puck.  Along with the presence  of British comics legend Hunt Emerson, and a presentation of the first issue of Puck, an exhibition, open until March 6th, presents a selection of original drawings  by Gilbert Shelton, Squaz, Aleksandar, Zograf and many other artists. 

http://www.thedongallery.com/#current_show/puck_show

http://www.milanoweb.com/notizie-milano/arte-e-cultura/7039_-the-don-gallery-dedica-una-mostra-alla-rivista-puck 
 

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