Darko Macan
Encyclopedia
Darko Macan is a Croatia
n author and illustrator
who has created and collaborated on comics
, essays and science fiction
and fantasy
. He is also an editor.
, where he still lives, he has a degree in history
and archeology from the University of Zagreb
.
He has drawn and written many comic book
s, mostly in Croatian, but in 1993 he broke into the American comics industry when he and fellow Croatian artist Edvin Biuković
submitted their work to Dark Horse Comics
. He has also done Donald Duck
and Mickey Mouse
for Disney
comics. He was nominated for the Eisner Award
twice (Grendel Tales: Devils and Deaths and Prayer to Sun).
As a writer, he has sold more than forty science fiction
and fantasy short stories, two science fiction novels and three children's books
. He has won four SFERA Awards and two Grigor Vitez Awards.
Under the pseudonym Cecile Quintal he has written essays about comics.
He was editor of nine Annual Collections of Croatian SF. He is editor-in-chief of the "Q strip" comics magazine.
Croatia
Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...
n author and illustrator
Illustrator
An Illustrator is a narrative artist who specializes in enhancing writing by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text...
who has created and collaborated on comics
Comics
Comics denotes a hybrid medium having verbal side of its vocabulary tightly tied to its visual side in order to convey narrative or information only, the latter in case of non-fiction comics, seeking synergy by using both visual and verbal side in...
, essays and science fiction
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
and fantasy
Fantasy
Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...
. He is also an editor.
Biography
Born in ZagrebZagreb
Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. According to the last official census, Zagreb's city...
, where he still lives, he has a degree in history
History
History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...
and archeology from the University of Zagreb
University of Zagreb
The University of Zagreb is the biggest Croatian university and the oldest continuously operating university in the area covering Central Europe south of Vienna and all of Southeastern Europe...
.
He has drawn and written many comic book
Comic book
A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...
s, mostly in Croatian, but in 1993 he broke into the American comics industry when he and fellow Croatian artist Edvin Biuković
Edvin Biukovic
Edvin Biuković was a Croatian comics artist. He made his debut in 1987 with the strip Dokaz. He spent several more years working on comic projects in Croatia....
submitted their work to Dark Horse Comics
Dark Horse Comics
Dark Horse Comics is the largest independent American comic book and manga publisher.Dark Horse Comics was founded in 1986 by Mike Richardson in Milwaukie, Oregon, with the concept of establishing an ideal atmosphere for creative professionals. Richardson started out by opening his first comic book...
. He has also done Donald Duck
Donald Duck
Donald Fauntleroy Duck is a cartoon character created in 1934 at Walt Disney Productions and licensed by The Walt Disney Company. Donald is an anthropomorphic white duck with a yellow-orange bill, legs, and feet. He typically wears a sailor suit with a cap and a black or red bow tie. Donald is most...
and Mickey Mouse
Mickey Mouse
Mickey Mouse is a cartoon character created in 1928 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks at The Walt Disney Studio. Mickey is an anthropomorphic black mouse and typically wears red shorts, large yellow shoes, and white gloves...
for Disney
The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company is the largest media conglomerate in the world in terms of revenue. Founded on October 16, 1923, by Walt and Roy Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, Walt Disney Productions established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before diversifying into...
comics. He was nominated for the Eisner Award
Eisner Award
The Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, commonly shortened to the Eisner Awards, and sometimes referred to as the Oscar Awards of the Comics Industry, are prizes given for creative achievement in American comic books. The Eisner Awards were first conferred in 1988, created in response to the...
twice (Grendel Tales: Devils and Deaths and Prayer to Sun).
As a writer, he has sold more than forty science fiction
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
and fantasy short stories, two science fiction novels and three children's books
Children's literature
Children's literature is for readers and listeners up to about age twelve; it is often defined in four different ways: books written by children, books written for children, books chosen by children, or books chosen for children. It is often illustrated. The term is used in senses which sometimes...
. He has won four SFERA Awards and two Grigor Vitez Awards.
Under the pseudonym Cecile Quintal he has written essays about comics.
He was editor of nine Annual Collections of Croatian SF. He is editor-in-chief of the "Q strip" comics magazine.
Science fiction and fantasy prose
- Ona koju vole bogovi, novelNovelA novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
(with Tatjana Jambrišak, Goran Konvični, Damir Starešinić and Berislav Lopac) (included in annual collection Zagreb 2014 by SFera, 1998) - Koža boje masline, novel (included in annual collection Dvije tisuće šarenih aliena by SFera, 2000), SFERA Award
- Teksas Kid (i još neka moja braća), short story collection, includes Koža boje masline (Mentor, 2003)
- 42 (pročitaj i daj dalje), short stories (Mentor, 2009)
Books for children
- Knjige lažu! (Znanje, 1997), Grigor Vitez Award
- Pavo protiv Pave (Mozaik kniga, 2002)
- Žuta minuta: rock'n'roll bajka (Autorska kuća, 2005), Grigor Vitez Award
- Dlakovuk (Knjiga u centru and Autorska kuća, 2007)
- Jadnorog (Knjiga u centru, 2008)
Comics
- Citati (with Edvin BiukovićEdvin BiukovicEdvin Biuković was a Croatian comics artist. He made his debut in 1987 with the strip Dokaz. He spent several more years working on comic projects in Croatia....
, Stripagent, 1993, 2000) - Strossmayer (with Radovan Devlić and Dušan Gačić, Glas koncila, 1993)
- Grendel Tales: Devils and Deaths (with Edvin BiukovićEdvin BiukovicEdvin Biuković was a Croatian comics artist. He made his debut in 1987 with the strip Dokaz. He spent several more years working on comic projects in Croatia....
, Dark Horse ComicsDark Horse ComicsDark Horse Comics is the largest independent American comic book and manga publisher.Dark Horse Comics was founded in 1986 by Mike Richardson in Milwaukie, Oregon, with the concept of establishing an ideal atmosphere for creative professionals. Richardson started out by opening his first comic book...
, 1996) - Star Wars: X-Wing: The Phantom AffairX-wing Rogue Squadron: The Phantom AffairX-wing Rogue Squadron: The Phantom Affair is a four-part story arc in the X-wing: Rogue Squadron series of comic books written by Michael Stackpole & Darko Macan. The first issue was published on 1 February 1996 by Dark Horse Comics...
(with Michael Stackpole and Edvin BiukovićEdvin BiukovicEdvin Biuković was a Croatian comics artist. He made his debut in 1987 with the strip Dokaz. He spent several more years working on comic projects in Croatia....
, Dark Horse ComicsDark Horse ComicsDark Horse Comics is the largest independent American comic book and manga publisher.Dark Horse Comics was founded in 1986 by Mike Richardson in Milwaukie, Oregon, with the concept of establishing an ideal atmosphere for creative professionals. Richardson started out by opening his first comic book...
, 1997) - BorovnicaBorovnicaBorovnica can refer to:*Borovnica, Slovenia*Borovnica...
(Školska knjiga, 1998) - Tarzan: Carson of Venus (with Igor Kordej, Dark Horse ComicsDark Horse ComicsDark Horse Comics is the largest independent American comic book and manga publisher.Dark Horse Comics was founded in 1986 by Mike Richardson in Milwaukie, Oregon, with the concept of establishing an ideal atmosphere for creative professionals. Richardson started out by opening his first comic book...
, 1999) - HellblazerHellblazerHellblazer is a contemporary horror comic book series, originally published by DC Comics, and subsequently by the Vertigo imprint since March 1993, the month the imprint was introduced, where it remains to this day...
#144-145 (with Gary ErskineGary ErskineGary Erskine is a Scottish comic book artist born in Paisley, near Glasgow in 1968.-Biography:Erskine started drawing work for fanzines while at art college and aspired to be a comic book artist. After sending samples of his work to Marvel UK he was eventually given Knights of Pendragon to draw on...
, Vertigo, 2000) - Star Wars: Vader's Quest (with Dave GibbonsDave GibbonsDave Gibbons is an English comic book artist, writer and sometime letterer. He is best known for his collaborations with writer Alan Moore, which include the miniseries Watchmen and the Superman story "For the Man Who Has Everything"...
, Dark Horse ComicsDark Horse ComicsDark Horse Comics is the largest independent American comic book and manga publisher.Dark Horse Comics was founded in 1986 by Mike Richardson in Milwaukie, Oregon, with the concept of establishing an ideal atmosphere for creative professionals. Richardson started out by opening his first comic book...
, 2000) - Weird War Tales (with Edvin BiukovićEdvin BiukovicEdvin Biuković was a Croatian comics artist. He made his debut in 1987 with the strip Dokaz. He spent several more years working on comic projects in Croatia....
, "A Prayer to the Sun", Vertigo, 2000) - Star Wars Tales 3: Lady Luck (with Rich Handley, Dark Horse ComicsDark Horse ComicsDark Horse Comics is the largest independent American comic book and manga publisher.Dark Horse Comics was founded in 1986 by Mike Richardson in Milwaukie, Oregon, with the concept of establishing an ideal atmosphere for creative professionals. Richardson started out by opening his first comic book...
, 2001) - Star Wars: Chewbacca (with a group of other artists, Dark Horse ComicsDark Horse ComicsDark Horse Comics is the largest independent American comic book and manga publisher.Dark Horse Comics was founded in 1986 by Mike Richardson in Milwaukie, Oregon, with the concept of establishing an ideal atmosphere for creative professionals. Richardson started out by opening his first comic book...
, 2001) - Komarac: Prop'o plan (with Štef Bartolić; Profil, 2001)
- Star Wars: Jedi vs SithJedi vs. SithJedi vs. Sith is a six-part comic book series which was released in a trade paperback graphic novel format. It was created by Ramon F. Bachs, Raul Fernandez and Darko Macan. It was published by Dark Horse Comics ....
(with Ramon Bachs, Dark Horse ComicsDark Horse ComicsDark Horse Comics is the largest independent American comic book and manga publisher.Dark Horse Comics was founded in 1986 by Mike Richardson in Milwaukie, Oregon, with the concept of establishing an ideal atmosphere for creative professionals. Richardson started out by opening his first comic book...
, 2002) - La Bette Noire #1-5 (with Milan JovanovićMilan JovanovicMilan Jovanović was one of the most influential Serbian photographers of his generation. He is best "known for continuing the traditional path established by Anastas Jovanović , the first professional photographer in Serbia." Milan was a Court photographer, son of Stevan Jovanović, the brother of...
, Drugi pogled, 2001 and 2002) - Mister Mačak (with Robert Solanović and Tihomir Tikulin; Bookglobe, 2002)
- CableCable (comics)Cable is a fictional character appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared as an infant in Uncanny X-Men #201...
: The End (with Igor Kordej, David Tischmann and Mike Huddlestone, Marvel ComicsMarvel ComicsMarvel Worldwide, Inc., commonly referred to as Marvel Comics and formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, is an American company that publishes comic books and related media...
, 2002) - Soldier X #1-8 (with Igor Kordej, Marvel ComicsMarvel ComicsMarvel Worldwide, Inc., commonly referred to as Marvel Comics and formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, is an American company that publishes comic books and related media...
, 2002) - Mr. Meow (with Robert Solanović) in Furrlough issue #113, Radio ComixRadio ComixRadio Comix is an alternative comic book publishing company based in San Antonio, Texas, United States. Founded in 1996 by former Antarctic Press employees Elin Winkler-Suarez and Pat Duke, Radio Comix has published hundreds of comics from many genres, from both American-created and translated...
, 2002 - Mister Mačak protiv zvjezdanog roja (with Robert Solanović; Bookglobe, 2005)
- Borovnica - - - protiv Paje Pauka! (Mentor, 2005)
- Borovnica - - - predvodi čopor! (Mentor, 2007)
- Borovnica: pasice (Mentor, 2007)
- Pirati - cio svijet na internet! (Autorska kuća, 2007)
- Kolumbo (Mentor, 2007)
- Martina Mjesec (with Goran SudžukaGoran Sudzuka-Biography:Sudžuka who began his work in animation and later began to publish with Darko Macan in Croatia and Germany.His works include Outlaw Nation, Y: The Last Man, and Hellblazer: Lady Constantine with Andy Diggle....
; Mentor, 2007) - Svebor i Plamena (with Goran SudžukaGoran Sudzuka-Biography:Sudžuka who began his work in animation and later began to publish with Darko Macan in Croatia and Germany.His works include Outlaw Nation, Y: The Last Man, and Hellblazer: Lady Constantine with Andy Diggle....
and Matija Pisačić; Fibra, 2007) - Mali Guj i njegov Zmuj (with Frano Petruša; Mentor, 2007)
- Borovnica - - - rani dani! (Mentor, 2008)
- Mišo: štakori trče počasni krug! (Mentor, 2008)
- Bočko: 20 godina s nama (Mentor, 2008)
- Sergej: stare priče (Mentor, 2008)
- Dnevniq (Mentor, 2009)
Books about comics
- Stripocentrik : (Kvintalove tjedne kartice) (Mentor, 2005)
- Hrvatski strip : 1945.-54. (Mentor, 2007)
External links
(in Croatian)- Blog (in Croatian)
- Darko Macan in the I.N.D.U.C.K.S.I.N.D.U.C.K.S.The International Network of Disney Universe Comic Knowers and Sources or Inducks is a freely available database aiming to index all Disney Universe comics ever printed in the world. It is an international project which provides indexes of around 90,000 Disney comic publications worldwide. It is...