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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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Tako se to desilo (Just So Happens - Fumio Obata)

Ebook (PDF format) and hardback book with flaps (165x235mm) in Serbian, 176 colour pages, with an introduction by Zoran Penevski. This book, by Fumio Obata, is his sensitive account of the Japanese girl between two different countries and cultures.

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Karton siri (Cardboard City - Zeljko Obrenovic and others)

Ebook (PDF format) and hardback book (170x240mm) in Serbian, 136 colour pages, with introductions by Pavle Zelic and David Hine. This book contains 7 stories from different historic periods and with different genres, all written by Zeljko Obrenovic and drawn by 4 artists.

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Bad Boy (Bad Boy - Mladen Oljaca)

Ebook (PDF format) and paperback book with flaps (210x297mm) in Serbian, 96 black and white pages, introduction by Zivojin Tamburic, plus some illustrations by Oljaca. This is a collection of black humoured stories, from Oljaca, a peaceful man from Pannonia Valley, provoked by the harsh reality.

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Manuel Montano (Manuel Montano - Miguelanxo Prado)

Ebook (PDF format) and paperback book with flaps (210x297mm) in Serbian, 58 colour pages and an introduction by Zoran Penevski. This book, by the Spanish author Miguelanxo Prado, is a collection of short stories about a lovable private detective.

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Tangente (Tangents - Miguelanxo Prado)

Ebook (PDF format) and paperback book with flaps (210x297mm) in Serbian, 58 colour pages and an introduction by Matko Vladanovic. This book, by the Spanish author Miguelanxo Prado, is a collection of short stories about unhappy love stories, painted in sepia colours.

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Trag kredom (Streak of Chalk - Miguelanxo Prado)

Ebook (PDF format) and paperback book with flaps (210x297mm) in Serbian, 104 colour pages and an introduction by Vasa Pavkovic. This book, by the Spanish author Miguelanxo Prado, is a mysterious thriller story set on a chalk island in the middle of the ocean.

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Ardalen (Ardalèn - Miguelanxo Prado)

Ebook (PDF format) and hardback book (210x297mm) in Serbian, 261 colour pages and an introduction by Zoran Penevski. Using the 'magic realism', Prado investigates the importance of memories for our present and future, all painted with misty watrcolours and pastels.

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Dnevnik Ane Tank (The Diary of Anna Tank - Iztok Sitar)

Ebook (PDF format) and paperback book with flaps (165x235mm) in Serbian, 140 colour pages, introduction by Zoran Djukanovic, plus some Sitar's portraits by friends. This graphic novel by Sitar tells the emotional story about a young girl’s plunge into heroin addiction.

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Savovi (Stitches - David Small)

Ebook (PDF format) and paperback book with flaps (165x235mm) in Serbian, 348 b/w pages, with introductions by Vladimir Sagadin and Miroslav Cmuk. This book, by David Small, is a heart-breaking account of the author’s own childhood, painted in black, white and grey.

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Kući po mraku (Home After Dark - David Small)

Ebook (PDF format) and hard back book (165x235mm) in Serbian, 416 b/w pages, with essays by Zoran Penevski and Vladimir Šagadin. A coming of age book in the 60s in a blue collar America.

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Prica o jednom losem pacovu (The Tale of One Bad Rat - Bryan Talbot)

Ebook (PDF format) and paperback book with flaps (165x235mm) in Serbian, 148 colour pages, introduction by Zoran Penevski. An emotional story with beautiful real locations drawings from Talbot about one young girl and her struggle to overcome the domestic abuse.

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Ćerke (Dotter of her Father's Eyes - Bryan Talbot)

Ebook (PDF format) and paperback book with flaps (165x235mm) in Serbian, 108 colour pages, introduction by Pavle Zelic. A sensitive and observant graphic novel by Bryant and Mary Talbot about Lucia Joyce, the daughter of James Joyce, a famous Irish writer, and Mary Talbot herself.

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Život je dobar ako ne odustaješ (It's a Good Life if You Don't Weaken - Seth)

Ebook (PDF format) and hardback book (165x235mm) in Serbian, 200 two colours pages, introduction by Matko Vladanović. A young comics artist investigates an obscure older artist and looks for his own purpose in life.

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Stripovi koje smo voleli (The Comics We Loved - Tamburic, Zupan and Stefanovic)

Ebook (PDF format) and hardback book (210x297mm) in Serbian, with 314 colour pages and introductions by Paul Gravett and authors. It has been prepared by Zivojin Tamburic, Zdravko Zupan and Zoran Stefanovic.

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Stripske kritike (Comics Critiques - Živojin Tamburić)

Ebook (PDF format) and paperback book (165x235mm) in Serbian, 134 colour pages, introductions by Predrag Djurić, Ilija Bakić i Vasa Pavković. A collection of critiques by Tamburić in the first 15 years of his work.

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Medjugroblje (Between Graveyards - Zvonimir Vidić)

Ebook (PDF format) and paperback book (210x297mm) in Serbian, 92 colour pages, introductions by Predrag Djurić. A talented sculptor, burdened by the past, looks for the purpose of art and life.

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Devedesete (The Nineties - Wostok and Grabowski)

Ebook (PDF format) and paperback book with flaps (165x235mm) in Serbian, 156 b/w pages, introductions by Zoran Djukanovic and Miroslav Cmuk. A collection of short stories by Wostok and Grabowsky, in which they tried to escape from the harsh reality of the civil war in Yugoslavia.

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Irmina (Irmina - Barbara Yelin)

Ebook (PDF format) and hardback book (210x297mm) in Serbian, 296 coloured pages, with an afterword by Dr Aleksander Korb. Irmina is a courageous and young girl from Germany who studies in London, but historical circumstances in Hitler's Germany dictate her life.

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Malo ubistvo (A Small Killing - Alan Moore, Oscar Zarate)

Ebook (PDF format) and paperback book with flaps (210x297mm) in Serbian, 106 colour pages. In psychedelic colours, Moore and Zarete tell the story of a young man who is returning to England to confront past, gilt and dangerous enemy.

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Lobačev - Čardak i na nebu i na zemlji (Lobačev - Zdravko Zupan)

Ebook (PDF format) and hardback book (210x297mm) in Serbian, 284 colour pages. Lobačev's career spans more than 80 years before and after II World War. This book collects his most famous comics, illustrations, caricatures and memorabilia.

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