Review of the Komikaze anthology No 17 was printed on Mart / June 2019 issue of A Batalha/ The Battle, the anarchist portuguese newspaper, which celebrates 100 years of existence this year! – Happy anniversary <3
☞ ENG TRANSLATION: The Battle/ Komikaze #17
Ivana Armanini (dir) // 2018
Croatian Komikaze deserves to be alongside other important anthologies of the millennium on the ground as the Finnish Glömp and the Italian Canicola. Timidly, far from Finnish psychedelism or the Italian black and white abrasive, volume by volume imposed a Balkan style of its own that unites Croats and Serbs. What does this style consist of? Thematically it is in attack on social mores, mixed with some surrealism and a humour as gross as black, with the proposed drawings and graphics filled with piles, Mickeys rats, dirt, collages, naive designs and painting techniques. Time goes on, dicks shrink – except the ones of Bernhardha Xilko – and it’s getting more arsty-fartsy (but it not yet). The Portuguese participate Bruno Borges and Rui Moura in this issue.
Author: Marcos Farrajota, Cascais / Lisboa, Portugal (Bedeteca Lisabon, Chili com carne)
AUTONOMIES: http://autonomies.org/2019/02/celebrating-an-anniversary-the-100-years-of-the-anarchist-newspaper-a-batalha/
☞ ORIGINAL: Komikaze #17
Ivana Armanini (dir) // 2018
A croata Komikaze merece estar ao lado de outras antologias importantes deste milénio no terreno europeu da BD como a finlandesa Glömp e a italia- na Canicola (ambas extintas). Timidamente, longe do psicadelismo finlandês ou do abrasivo preto e branco italiano, volume a volume impôs um estilo próprio balcânico que une croatas e sérvios. Em que consiste esse estilo? Tematicamente é no ataque aos costumes sociais, misturado com algum surre- alismo e um humor tão bruto como negro, sendo os desenhos e grafismos propostos cheios de pilas, ratos Mickeys, sujidade, colagens, desenhos naifs e técnicas de pintura. À medida que o tempo passa, as pilas vão ficando murchas menos as do Bernhar- da Xilko, e cada vez mais é artsy-mas-ainda-falta- -um-coche-pró-fartsy. Participam os portugueses Bruno Borges e Rui Moura neste número. [M.F.]
