Sasa Rakezic

Sasa Rakezic (a.k.a. Aleksandar Zograf) was born in 1963, and started to publish comics in various Serbian magazines in 1986. From the beginning of the '90s, most of his works have been published abroad, in magazines like Weirdo, The Comics Journal, Zero Zero, Rare Bit Fiends, the Stranger, New City, Cow (U.S.), Lapin (France), Mano, Il
Manifesto, Linus, Kerosene (Italy), Babel (Greece), Galago (Sweden), Stripburger (Slovenia), Das Magazin, Zur Zeit (Switzerland), Fidus (Norway), Zone 5300 (Holland), etc. Solo comics include Life Under Sanctions, Psychonaut #1 - #3 (Fantagraphics), Flock of Dreamers (Kitchen Sink), and many many more throughout the world. During the NATO bombing campaign in Serbia, he wrote e-mail messages that were posted on the internet in many countries, and collected in book form, in UK (Bulletins from Serbia), Italy (Lettere dalla Serbia) and France (E-Mails de Pancevo). His first major collection with Top Shelf, Regards from Serbia will be published in early 2007.