birth_place alias subcat nationality cartoonist birth_date sortkey article_title birth_name
pančevo , serbia aleksandar zograf serbian serbian y 1963 zograf , aleksandar aleksandar zograf
 saša rakezić
aleksandar zograf

saša rakezić -lrb- born 1963 in pančevo , serbia -rrb- -lrb- better known by the pen name aleksandar zograf -rrb- is a serbian cartoonist , author of such works as `` life under sanctions '' , `` psychonaut '' , `` dream watcher '' , and `` bulletins from serbia '' .
zograf 's work cuts to the heart of life in the former yugoslavia .
in books like `` life under sanctions '' and `` bulletins from serbia '' , he portrays the region 's emotional twisting and impossible conditions in a dark yet amusing manner .
in his graphic novel `` dream watcher '' -lrb- a nickname given to him by chief piercing eyes of the pan-american indian association -rrb- , zograf describes `` hypnagogic visions '' -- the haunting imagery that emerges in the transitional state between wakefulness and sleep .
zograf has been active on the international scene since the early 1990s when his work started to appear in american comics anthologies such as `` weirdo '' and `` zero zero '' , and when seattle 's fantagraphics books published a few of his titles .
the british publisher slab-o-concrete published a number of his books , and works by zograf have been translated and published into many european magazines , and his solo titles have been issued by publishers l'association in france , puntozero and black velvet in italy , jochen enterprises in germany , sluzbeni glasnik and skcns in serbia , vbz in croatia , kapsimi in greece , nyittott konyv in hungary , and under comics in spain .
