Croatia

Stan Sakai · Post by **Stan Sakai** » Thu Sep 16, 2010 11:08 -0700

I will be a guest of the comics convention in Zagreb in early November. I will also be doing the festival poster and T-shirt design.

We'll have a contest or two with the shirts as prizes.

Post by **Steve Hubbell** » Thu Sep 16, 2010 12:38 -0700

Cool!

We love comics and contests!

PS,
Have you been to Croatia before?

Stan Sakai · Post by **Stan Sakai** » Thu Sep 16, 2010 12:56 -0700

Steve Hubbell wrote:
Have you been to Croatia before?

I have never been to Croatia, but have wanted to for a long time. When I was first approached to be a guest, I did so with the stipulation that I will get to visit Dubrovnik, a city along the Dalmatian Coast. The entire city center is designated a Unesco World Heritage Site.

coolray85 · Post by **coolray85** » Thu Sep 16, 2010 15:05 -0700

my sister just came home from a few days in dubrovnik and according to her writing she enjoyed it very much.a beautiful place.....
cool, zagreb isn't that far from here..some hours by car;)

Post by **Steve Hubbell** » Thu Sep 16, 2010 21:54 -0700

Sounds like a place worth visiting. Can't wait to see your pictures!

Have any of the Dark horse volumes been translated and published in Croatia?

Thomas Froehling · Post by **Thomas Froehling** » Fri Sep 17, 2010 0:58 -0700

Steve Hubbell wrote:Sounds like a place worth visiting. Can't wait to see your pictures!

Have any of the Dark horse volumes been translated and published in Croatia?

In other words, are there any volumes Steve is missing in his collection and is there a way to get his hands on them?

Post by **Mayhem** » Fri Sep 17, 2010 5:44 -0700

Hah hah, that was just my thought too

Stan Sakai · Post by **Stan Sakai** » Fri Sep 17, 2010 6:22 -0700

Steve Hubbell wrote:
Have any of the Dark horse volumes been translated and published in Croatia?

I don't think so. I was surprised that even the Fantagraphics volumes were still being published there.

Elmo · Post by **Elmo** » Wed Sep 22, 2010 9:43 -0700

1st of all I wish a welcome to mr. Sakai to Croatia in November.

Dubrovnik is kinda overrated, I think there are some other cities at the adriatic/dalmatian coast worth visting more. For those interested more about Croatia here's a link to recently awarded US documentary on Croatia:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71xJhNz5a8g

And yes, only the Fantagraphics TPs are published here, 7 volumes in hard covers (from 2001-2006), and before that in mid. 90ies 2 issues of Usagi.

Stan Sakai · Post by **Stan Sakai** » Wed Sep 22, 2010 10:22 -0700

Yes, if I had more time, I would love to also visit Split and Brela, and the entire coast. Unfortunately, I am behind on my deadlines as it is.

Post by **Steve Hubbell** » Wed Sep 22, 2010 10:53 -0700

Elmo wrote: And yes, only the Fantagraphics TPs are published here, 7 volumes in hard covers (from 2001-2006), and before that in mid. 90ies 2 issues of Usagi.

Hey Elmo,
Any chance of getting more information on those two issues of Usagi from the mid-90's?
Thanks,
Steve

Stan Sakai · Post by **Stan Sakai** » Wed Sep 22, 2010 11:00 -0700

Steve Hubbell wrote:
Elmo wrote: And yes, only the Fantagraphics TPs are published here, 7 volumes in hard covers (from 2001-2006), and before that in mid. 90ies 2 issues of Usagi.
Hey Elmo,
Any chance of getting more information on those two issues of Usagi from the mid-90's?
Thanks,
Steve

I never knew about those either.

Post by **Steve Hubbell** » Thu Sep 23, 2010 0:55 -0700

I've been trying to find out more details about those early releases on one of the Croatian comic forums, but all I've gotten so far is some cover scans.

And a cool tip about some Usagi stories published in a Garfield magazine which was also a nice bonus.

Originally posted by BiDi
[br]I don't know about particular releases (I've seen them but i don't know nothing about them)

Here is how they look:

There was some Usagi Yojimbo released also in short lived Bookglobe's "Garfield Zabavnik" Magazine (besides Garfield and Bone) in 2004

Elmo · Post by **Elmo** » Thu Sep 23, 2010 1:15 -0700

I've just replied to topic at stripovi.com's forum, so there's the answer to the question asked here too.

http://forum.stripovi.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=38207

If there's anything else I can help you with feel free to ask.

Post by **Steve Hubbell** » Thu Sep 23, 2010 1:28 -0700

Originally posted by VJ
[br]2 issues of Usagi were published in 1994. (I guess) by Bookglobe.

In issue #1 the first story has no title but it's "The goblin of Adachighara" in English.
2nd one is named "Usamljeni zec i djete" in Croatian ("Lone rabbit and child").

Issue #2 has the cover of Fantagraphics' issue #37 but it doesn't contain the same stories
as the american one. Tere are 3 stories inside: "Lovac na ucjene" ("Bounty hunter"),
"Konjokradica" ("Horse thief") and "Selo straha" ("Village of fear").

Editor and translator was the owner of the publishing house Bookglobe, Nebojiša Radić.

There are 7 books with hard covers published also by Bookglobe.
They're exact copies of Fantagraphics' TP editions so everything matches execpt for the
covers of books 2 and 3. Editors are Nebojiša Radić and Bernard Radovčič.

#1 (2001) - translated by Ozren Švarc
#2 (2001) - translated by Ozren Švarc
#3 (04/2003) - translated by Martin Babić
#4 (06/2004) - translated by Martin Babić
#5 (06/2005) - translated by Vuk Radić
#6 (06/2005) - translated by Vuk Radić
#7 (10/2006) - translated by Ivana Lieli

And as BiDi already mentioned there were few stories of Usagi in
"Garfield zabavnik" magazine:

#1 (06/2004)

No title in Croatian ("The goblin of Adachighara") - 8 pgs.
"Usamljeni zec i djete" ("Lone rabbit and child") - 20 pgs.

#2 (07/2004)

"Priznanje" ("The confession") - 15 pgs.

#3 (08/2004)

"Lovac na glave" ("Bounty hunter") - 10 pgs.
"Kradljivac konja" ("Horse thief") - 10 pgs.

#4 (09/2004)

Selo straha ("Village of fear") - 8 pgs.
No title in Croatian ("A quiet meal") - 10 pgs.

#5/6 (10/2004)

"Slijepo prase s mačem" ("Blind swords-pig!") - 10 pgs.
"Povrtak kući" ("Homecoming!") - 10 pgs.