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“Modesty stripovi” is the sister company to “Modesty Comics”. It is a publishing company in Serbia, with books in Serbian language, with four editions – domestic comics after 1990, foreign comics after 1990, domestic classics and domestic critiques and monographs. Much more about "Modesty stripovi" books can be found on the website www.modestystripovi.com

The first published book, in 2011, partially in English, was The Comics We Loved - Selection of 20th Century Comics and Creators from the Region of Former Yugoslavia (Stripovi koje smo voleli), which is a critical lexicon on 314 pages, presenting about 200 artists, 200 script writers and 400 comics. Each comics is presented with one page of the comics, bibliography and selected reviews.

This book was awarded as the best publishing achievement of the year at the “Book Fair” in Belgrade, in 2011. The "Modesty stripovi" publishing has also won the award for the best publisher of foreign comics at “International Comics Festival – Salon Stripa” in Belgrade, in 2013.

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Briten i Brulajtli (Britten and Brulightly - Hannah Berry)

Ebook (PDF format) and paperback book with flaps (210x297mm) in Serbian, 112 colour pages, introduction by Tomislav Cegir. A beautifully drawn and painted crime-noir story by Hannah Berry, which will remind you of the movie China Town.

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Stripovi iz Nikad Robom - Radivoj Bogicevic (Comics from Never Enslaved - Radivoj Bogicevic)

Ebook (PDF format) and paperback book with flaps (150x210mm) in Serbian, 254 b/w and colour pages, introductions by Vasa Pavkovic and Zdravko Zupan. Seven stories from the rich history of Yugoslavian people, drawn and told by Bogicevic in the sixties of the 20th century.

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Etel i Ernest (Ethel and Ernest - Raymond Briggs)

Ebook (PDF format) and paperback book with flaps (165x235mm) in Serbian, 120 colour pages, with an introduction by Zivojin Tamburic. This book, by Raymond Briggs, is his sympathetic study of the working class in England, through the life of his own parents.

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Hladna kao led (Cold Like Ice - Nina Bunjevac)

Ebook (PDF format) and hardback book (210x297mm) in Serbian, 106 b/w pages, introduction by Zoran Djukanovic, plus some Nina's illustrations at the end of the book. Nina Bunjevac’s short stories compiled in this book are a painful account of her female characters with an ugly world around them.

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Stripske majstorije Ive Kusanica (Comics Masterworks by Ivo Kusanic - Ivo Kusanic)

Ebook (PDF format) and hardback book (210x297mm) in Serbian, 128 b/w and colour pages, introductions by Vasa Pavkovic i Zdravko Zupan. This book shows the 14 comics by Ivo Kusanic, our top cartoonist, illustrator and comic artist, made in the period from 1939 to 1986.

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Nova Vremena (New Times - Tomaz Lavric)

Ebook (PDF format) and paperback book with flaps (210x297mm) in Serbian, 82 b/w pages and an introduction by Zoran Penevski. This book, by Tomaz Lavric, is a collection of short stories about Ljubljana in transition from socialism to capitalism.

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Drugim ocima (With Other Eyes - Djordje Milovic)

Ebook (PDF format) and paperback book with flaps (210x297mm) in Serbian, 114 b/w pages, introductions by Boris Lazic and Djordje Milovic. A collection of short stories, based on literature, but with Djordje Milovic’s genuine drawings and interpretations.

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Vadisrce (Heartsnatcher - Djordje Milovic)

Ebook (PDF format) and paperback book with flaps (165x235mm) in Serbian, 100 colour pages, introduction by Ilija Bakic. Milovic's graphic novel is deeply sensitive, painted in aquarelle technique and based on the novel by a French writer Boris Vian.

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