“Mister Bookseller” (Gospodin Libar)

by Joey deVilla on September 6, 2008

For some weekend reading, I present the bittersweet Gospodin Libar (Mister Bookseller), a short story in comic form by Darko Macan and Tihomir Celanovic. Originally published in Croatian, a comic enthusiast has lovingly translated and re-lettered the comic into English, and I’m glad she did. If you’re a bibliophile, you’ll love this story.

I’ve posted the first two pages here, and you can read the full eight pages over at the comic site Scans Daily.

Comic: "Mister Bookseller" (part 1)
Comic: "Mister Bookseller (part 2)"

Click the images above to read the full comic.

{ 5 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Piolo Pascual September 6, 2008 at 4:27 pm

oh my god beautifully drawn!

2 stasia September 11, 2008 at 7:23 pm

now this I would love to own in hardcopy. And hard cover. With guilded pages. And a bit more story.

3 WTB September 26, 2008 at 8:16 am

Thank you for the kind words on the (wholly unsolicited, I must add) translation! Just a tiny correction: I’m a she.

4 Joey deVilla September 26, 2008 at 8:18 am

@WTB: And thank you for the translation!

(I’ve corrected the pronoun, too.)

5 rox March 27, 2009 at 1:21 am

the original link of the whole comics is gone now, any idea where to find the entire 8 pages?

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