Although comics are inseparably related to the innumerable deceptive faces of humour, they are more about parodied and satiric (mocking) laughter, and usually more about guys. Stripburger#46 dedicated more than half its pages to works by Slovene and foreign women artists. It introduced socially critical and intimate – and in particular original – comic strips by authors such as Andreja Kladnik (Slovenia), Saša Kerkoš (Slovenia), Maja Veselinović (Serbia), Anne Ehrlemark (Sweden / Slovenia), Malin Biller (Sweden), Kati Kovacs (Finland), Geneviève Castrée (Canada), Cinders McLeod (Canada), Roberta Gregory (USA), Mary Fleener (USA) and Dunja Janković (Croatia).
In 2006, the young Croatian author Dunja Janković was awarded first prize at the Crtani Romani Šou, Croatia’s only festival of comics. She provided the cover for the new issue of Stripburger, and in an interview reveals at what she laughs at most in her comics. Established Canadian cartoonist Cinders McLeod rounded up the thematic pages with a comic strip upon comic strip which is unfortunately topical subject matter even years after its emergence - and despite Stripburger’s best efforts - still topical in Europe and beyond. Her contribution addresses the question as to why there are still so few women in the world of comics. The aforementioned artists were accompanied by work of the authors who responded to City of Women and Stripburger open call Laugh Out Loud! In the regular part of the magazine a place for works of male comics’ artists was also found.
Tea Hvala
