DARK HUMOR SILENCE – DARKO BOGDANOV / JORDAN KOCEVSKI

Description

Title: Dark Humor Silence

Publisher: Darko Bogdanov / Jordan Kocevski

Printed: 2014

Language: Macedonian

Author: Darko Bogdanov (drawings), Jordan Kocevski (story)

Pages: 68

Format: A4

Price: 270 denars

“Dark Humor Silence” is an anthological comic book edition that completes the collaboration of the authors Darko Bogdanov (drawings) and Jordan Kocevski (story) on a number of short comics that the team has made in the period from 2009 to 2014. As the title suggests, the stories are divided into three sections – dark stories with partial elements of horror (“Darkness”), humorous comics with a twist at the end (“Humor”), and comics in which the main thing is silence and all that it carries it, mostly without text, or the text is equivalent to the inner silence of the characters. Beside the main authors, in this edition as special guests are represented a whole team of Macedonian illustrators and writers with their small segments – Andrej Manev, Aleksandar Stevanov, Stefan Kocevski, Vesna Nichevska, Igor Jovcevski and Stefco Kocevski.

Darko Bogdanov was born on 04.04. 1984 in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia

Graduated from the Department of Graphics at the High School of Art “Lazar Lichenoski” in Skopje in 2003, and then also graduated from the Department of Graphics in 2007 at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Sofia,  Bulgaria in the class of Dimo ​​Kolibarov. He has been primarily engaged in drawing comics and illustration since 2000.

Published short comics in many comic magazines in the country and abroad, a regular participant with his comics at almost all Balkan comic festivals. Winner of 5 comic book awards so far, and author of 4 comic book albums – “Modus Vivendi” in 2011, “Dark Humor Silence” together with writer Jordan Kocevski in 2014, “Knights of the Neighborhood” again in collaboration with Jordan Kocevski, through the publisher “Comic Square” from Skopje in 2016, and in collaboration with Aleksandar Stevanov, “Ægri Somnia” at the very end of 2020. In 2018, together with Aleksandar Stevanov and Sasho Gachev, he co-authored the book “Macedonian Comics” in the editions of Novi Sad ‚Dnevnik ‘, dedicated to the Macedonian authors who worked for that Serbian publisher.

In 2008 he worked as a comic book artist for the Bulgarian comic book publisher “IEKK Comics” from Sofia, and in 2009 he worked for the film studio “NU IMAGE” also in Sofia as a storyboard artist for the films “The Expendables” and “Conan”.

He has four solo exhibitions and participated in many group exhibitions in Macedonia and abroad. Member of the Association of Fine Artists “UM” from Vinica, with which he regularly participates in joint projects and exhibitions. Also for two years in a row he is part of the organization team that organizes the art colony “St. Gjorgji ”which is held at the end of August in the Vinica village of Blatec.

Lives and works in Vinica, Macedonia.