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 here.
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oh my god beautifully drawn!
now this I would love to own in hardcopy. And hard cover. With guilded pages. And a bit more story.
Thank you for the kind words on the (wholly unsolicited, I must add) translation! Just a tiny correction: I'm a she.
@WTB: And thank you for the translation!
(I've corrected the pronoun, too.)
the original link of the whole comics is gone now, any idea where to find the entire 8 pages?
I had read it many years ago, and just thought of it earlier today, so I tried to find it to show to someone else.
I succeeded.
http://a-la-la-la-n.blogspot.com/2009/04/mister-booksellergospodin-libar.html
Sorry to be a downer but this isn't very well-written, nor is it even the least bit interesting or thought provoking. Decent illustrations, I suppose.
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