Đorđe Lobačev

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Đorđe Lobačev
BornYuriy Pavlovich Lobachev
(1909-03-04)March 4, 1909
Shkodër, Ottoman Albania
DiedJuly 23, 2002(2002-07-23) (aged 93)
Saint Petersburg, Russia
NationalityRussian
Area(s)Cartoonist

Đorđe Lobačev (

Soviet Russia
where he spent the rest of his life. He was the author of the first Soviet comic strip Hurricane Comes to the Rescue in 1966.

He is widely regarded as one of the founding fathers of both Serbian and Russian comic strip.

Biography

Lobačev was born Yuriy Pavlovich Lobachev (

University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy.[3]

Lobačev started his comics career in 1930s. His first comic strip was Bloody Heritage, on which he worked together with his

emigrant Vadim Kurgansky. It was inspired by American comic Secret Agent X-9,[2] and was published in 1935,[5] just a month after first Serbian comic strip was published by Vlasta Belkić.[6] But, Lobačev was not satisfied with imitating American comics, so he decided to create authentic Serbian comics. He created first comic on the theme from Serbian literature Hajduk Stanko, based on the novel by Janko Veselinović.[2] It was published by Politika in 1936.[5] After this, he continued to create comics for several newspapers and magazines including Politika, Politikin Zabavnik, Mika Miš and Mikijevo carstvo. His drew inspiration for his comics from literature (The Courier of the Czar based on "Michael Strogoff", The Children of Captain Grant based on "In Search of the Castaways", etc.) and Serbian folklore (Baš Čelik, Dušan's Wedding, Destruction of Pirlitor, and Čardak ni na nebu ni na zemlji).[5] He also made some fantasy comics, like Princess Ru,[5] which was published in France by Aventures in 1939.[3]

During the World War II

Leningrad.[2] In Leningrad, Lobačev worked illustrations, since comic strip was viewed as western fashion and discouraged.[2] He created first Soviet comic strip, Hurricane Comes to the Rescue in 1966, but it was heavily censored, and no comics were subsequently published in the Soviet Union until early eighties.[2]

Lobačev was allowed to visit Belgrade in 1964 for the first time after his deportation, and visited it frequently for the rest of his life.[2] Beginning in 1965,[4] he continued publishing comics in Serbian for Politikin Zabavnik (first of these was Secret Cave published in 1965).[5] In 1976, Yugoslav publisher Jugoslavija published a book of his comics Čudesni svet Đorđa Lobačeva ("The Wonderful World of Đorđe Lobačev") for which he re-draw some of his early comics.[5]

Lobačev died in Saint Petersburg on 23 July 2002.[1] He is regarded as one of the most important comic strip authors in both Serbia[7] and Russia, and is often referred to as the "father of Serbian comics"[6] and "father of Russian comics".[8] Belgrade School of Comics was renamed "Đorđe Lobačev" in his honor in 1996.[4] In 2011, Pavel Fetisov filmed a documentary "Yuriy Lobachev, the Father of Russian Comics" (Юрий Лобачев. Отец русского комикса).[4][8] Lobačev's book of memoirs titled When Volga met Sava (Serbian: Kad se Volga ulivala u Savu) was published in Belgrade in 1997.[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Preminuo Đorđe Lobačev, osnivač srpskog stripa" [Đorđe Lobačev, father of Serbian comics, dies]. Glas javnosti. 1 August 2002. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Ćirić, Sonja (23 November 2000). "Prednosti Troglave aždaje" (in Serbian). Vreme. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
  3. ^
    Večernje Novosti
    . Retrieved 18 August 2015.
  4. ^ a b c d e f Zupan, Zdravko (19 August 2011). Лобачев Юрий (Джордже) Павлович (in Russian). Retrieved 27 August 2015.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h Draginčić, Slavko; Zupan, Zdravko (1986). Istorija jugoslovenskog stripa [History of Yugoslav Comic Strip] (in Serbo-Croatian). Novi Sad: Forum–Marketprint.
  6. ^ a b Marković, S. Юрий Лобачев – основоположник сербского комикса (in Russian). Retrieved 27 August 2015.
  7. ^ Đukanović, Zoran (9 December 2010). "Smeh u snu" (in Serbian). Vreme. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
  8. ^ a b Pavel Fetisov (2011). Юрий Лобачев. Отец русского комикса [Yuriy Lobachev, the Father of Russian Comics] (film) (in Russian). Russia: Russia-K.

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