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ILLEGAL EMIGRANTS

"The controversial comic that divided the public into two, the most important product of the underground scene in Serbia in the last couple of decades."

Zoltan Kiš, Pioneer's Messenger

"ILLEGAL EMIGRANTS" ON "GRRR!" TO THE FESTIVAL "Alas, AGAIN" ILLEGAL EMIGRANTS "AGAIN - SOMEONE WILL SAY WHEN HE READS THE TITLE OF THIS TEXT, BUT WHAT DOES A MAN DO WHEN THE DYNAMICS OF VARIOUS EVENTS RELATED TO THAT COMICS ARE SO GREAT! Namely, A FEW DAYS AGO, AT THE very OPENING OF THE FIFTH "GRRR!" FESTIVAL IN PANCEVO, I BROUGHT SOME OF MY PRINTED AND PHOTOCOPIED EDITIONS TO THE SALES STAND. ON THE TOP OF THE PUMP OF FANZINS I TOOK OUT OF MY BACKPACK, THERE WAS ONE COPY OF "TICKET" NUMBER 400, WHICH WAS ACTUALLY DEDICATED TO THE COMIC BOOK "ILLEGAL EMIGRANTS". THE TOTAL "CIRCULATION" OF THIS ISSUE IS 6 OR 7 COPIES AND THIS WAS THE ONLY REMAINING COPY, WHILE THEY WERE ALREADY DISTRIBUTED TO FRIENDS. I TOOK IT WITH ME, IN FACT, MORE TO SEE MYSELF ON THE COUNTER THAN FOR SOME SALES. AS SOON AS I PUT THE MENTIONED FANZIN ON THE COUNTER, I HEARD A VOICE SAYING, "AND BECAUSE THIS IS A TICK?" WHEN I LOOKED UP I SAW THAT THE MAN WHO ASKED IT WAS NOBODY OTHER THAN RASTKO CIRIC! (FOR THE UNKNOWN, HE IS A PROFESSOR AT THE ACADEMY OF APPLIED ARTS AND A MAN WHO, AMONG THE OTHER THING, TEACHED ONE ALEX GAJIC TO DRAW LIKE "BEAUTIFUL AND GOOD"). I ANSWERED APPROXIMATELY: "HEY, BUT WHY THE" ugly "," awful "and" infamous "number of" ticks "?" RASTKO ANSWERED, WITH A VERY SATISFIED EXPRESSION ON HIS FACE, , I KNOW WELL ABOUT WHAT IT IS ABOUT! "TO MAKE A MIRACLE EVEN MORE, A LITTLE LATER I SAW PROFESSOR CIRICA AS SHOWING RANK MUNITICA TO MENTION FANZIN, EXPLAINING IN DETAIL TO HIM! ON THIS OCCASION, ON THIS OCCASION, I WOULD ASK MR. MARKO STOJANOVIC, WHO RECENTLY REPRESENTED THE COMIC BOOK "ILLEGAL EMIGRANTS" IN THE THINK TANK MAGAZINE, IN ORDER TO EXPLAIN THE GROWTH OF CIRIC AND THE RANK OF MUNICIPALITY IN MUNICIPALITY. ILLEGAL EMIGRANTS "ACTUALLY THE MOST ORDINARY" ... A LOT OF PROSTAKLUK, BOTH SPOKEN AND DRAWN! "MARKO, GOD SAVE YOUR NAIVE AND MISCONCEPTED SOULS!

DANILO MILOSEV-WOSTOK

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