Darko Macan
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Darko Macan (born 1966) is a Croatian author and illustrator who has created and collaborated on comics, essays and science fiction and fantasy. He is also an editor.
Born in Zagreb(where he still lives), he has a degree in history and archeology from the University of Zagreb.
He has drawn and written many comic books, mostly in Croatian, but in 1993 he broke into the American comics industry when he and fellow Croatian artist Edvin Biuković submitted their work to Dark Horse Comics. He has also done Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse for Disney comics. He was nominated for the Eisner Award twice (Grendel Tales: Devils and Deaths and Prayer to Sun).
As a writer, he has sold more than forty science fiction and fantasy short stories, two science fiction novels and three children's books. He has won four SFera Awards and two Grigor Vitez Awards.
Under the pseudonym Cecile Quintal he has written essays about comics.
He was editor of nine Annual Collections of Croatian SF. He is editor-in-chief of the "Q strip" comics magazine.
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[edit] Partial bibliography
[edit] Science Fiction and Fantasy prose
- Ona koju vole bogovi, novel (with Tatjana Jambrišak, Goran Konvični, Damir Starešinić and Berislav Lopac; SFera and Nova stvarnost, 1998)
- Koža boje masline, novel (SFera and Nova stvarmost, 2000), SFera Award
- Teksas Kid (i još neka moja braća), short story collection, (Mentor, 2003)
[edit] Books for kids
- Knjige lažu! (Znanje, 1997), Grigor Vitez Award
- Pavo protiv Pave (Mozaik kniga, 2002)
- Žuta minuta (Autorska kuća, 2005), Grigor Vitez Award
[edit] Comics
- Citati (with Edvin Biuković; Stripagent, 1993, 2000)
- Strossmayer (with Radovan Devlić and Dušan Gačić; Glas koncila, 1993)
- Grendel Tales: Devils and Deaths (with Edvin Biuković; Dark Horse Comics, 1996)
- Star Wars: X-Wing: The Phantom Affair (with Mike Stackpole and Edvin Biuković; Dark Horse Comics, 1997)
- Borovnica (Školska knjiga, 1998)
- Tarzan: Carson of Venus (with Igor Kordej; Dark Horse Comics, 1999)
- Hellblazer 144-145 (DC Comics, 2000)
- Star Wars: Vader's Quest (with Dave Gibbons; Dark Horse Comics, 2000)
- Star Wars: Chewbacca (with a group of other artists; Dark Horse Comics, 2001)
- Komarac: Prop'o plan (with Štef Bartolić; Profil, 2001)
- Star Wars: Jedi vs Sith (with Ramon Bachs; Dark Horse Comics, 2002)
- La Bette Noire 1-5 (with Milan Jovanović; Drugi pogled, 2001 and 2002)
- Mister Mačak (with Robert Solanović and Tihomir Tikulin; Bookglobe, 2002)
- Cable: The End (with Igor Kordej, David Tischmann and Mike Huddlestone; Marvel Comics, 2002)
- Soldier X: 1-8 (with Igor Kordej; Marvel Comics, 2002)
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| Preceded by Dan Jurgens |
Captain America writer 2002 |
Succeeded by John Ney Rieber |
| Preceded by Warren Ellis |
Hellblazer writer 2000 |
Succeeded by Brian Azzarello |
