One of those fun profits from a search of the net while tracking down some eastern European cartoonists: right is a cartoon on the South Eastern Railways Group site by Bobisa Todorovic.
It’s one of the winning cartoons of a competition celebrating railways in a 2004 international biennial exhibition, which was organised by the Belgrade City Department for Culture, the country’s Railway Transport Enterprise “Beograd”, the Belgrade Railway Museum, Federation of Cartoonists’ Organisations (Serbia and Montenegro).
There seem to be a lot of these international competitions, certainly more than there appaear to be in the UK and US, which once again indicates just how highly regarded cartoons and comics are elsewhere in the world. Sigh…
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The founder of downthetubes, which he established in 1998. John works as a comics and magazine editor, writer, and on promotional work for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He is currently editor of Star Trek Explorer, published by Titan – his third tour of duty on the title originally titled Star Trek Magazine.
Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine, Babylon 5 Magazine, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics. He has also edited several comic collections, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”.
He’s the writer of “Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies” for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs” with Dave Hailwood.
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