The first comics contest about the Balkans in history has named its winners!
The international competition of historical comics “CAN for BALKANS” took place between March and July 2022.
27 authors from Belgium, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Ukraine and China entered the final of the competition.
Winners
THE GRAND PRIZE
AUREL PETRESCU THE PIONEER OF ROMANIAN ANIMATION
Răzvan Bronescu | ROMANIA
FIRST PRIZE
BALKANS FOREVER
Ionuț Popescu | ROMANIA
SECOND PRIZE
AND THE THREE FRIENDS ARE…
Kosta Milovanović | SERBIA
THIRD PRIZE
THE WIND
Marjan Milanov & Srdan Todorović | SERBIA
MENTIONS
TUZLA
Maximilien Van De Wiele | BELGIUM
DEDA ROGA
Aljoša Tomić & Dragan Stokić Rajački | SERBIA
COMRADE RAKIJA
Valentin Ionescu | ROMANIA
BALKAN HUMOR VS THE WORLD
Vlad Forsea | ROMANIA
ODYSSEY
Slavica Kupenkova | NORTH MACEDONIA
The Jury
Professor Adrian Cioroianu
Romania / historian, diplomat, comics script author
Professor Ardian Isufi
Albania / artist, dean of the Fine Arts Department of the Art University in Tirana during 2016-2020
Etienne Schréder
Belgium / famous script writer and comics author
Dražen Kovačević
one of the most important comics artists in Serbia
Tome Trajkov
comics promotor in North Macedonia