Danijel Žeželj

There are two new Danijel Žeželj's graphic novels published for American market - Small Hands and Caballo.
Previews Review website wrote:

CABALLO GN
By Daniel Zezelj
$10.00, PAGE 257, 112 pages
OCT04 2578

SMALL HANDS GN
By Daniel Zezelj,
$10.00, PAGE 257, 96 pages
OCT04 2579

Nearer the beginning of the Quesada/Jemas regime, Marvel started giving work to Croatian artist Daniel Zezelj on things like The Call and a Captain America mini-series, following an outstanding turn as the artist on Corinthian: Death In Venice for Vertigo.
But Zezelj has been quiet in North American comics for a few years now, and it is only with the English-language publication of two of his most-recent graphic novels that we're finally getting further exposure to the talented artist. Using strong blacks and near-impressionistic figures, Zezelj's work can seem stark and distant in one moment, and hot-blooded and visceral the next. I'm really happy to see his new work being released here (and apparently self-published), and with Caballo a collection of stories taking place in war zones the work is guaranteed to be personal.

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Also, inbetween June 23 and August 28 there's gonna be Žeželj's art exhibition Stray Dogs in Boston's Gardner Museum. If you happen to be near, don't miss it. His art is more awesome in original than in printed material. The exhibition will follow a new graphic novel with the same title, Stray Dogs, coming out in June 2005. Artdaily.com says the following:

The Gardner Museum celebrates a milestone in its 13-year-old contemporary arts program this summer with Stray Dogs, graphic illustrations by its 50th Artist-in-Residence, Croatia-born cartoonist and illustrator Danijel Zezelj. Merging a quasi-documentary style with darkly poetic and musical sensibilities, Stray Dogs explores the hauntingly dark side of human experience. Zezelj’s project is a boldly impressionistic representation of the world as he sees it.

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition, a graphic novel by the same name, Stray Dogs, takes the form of a memoir for a woman journalist. Part illustrated biography, part dreamlike musing, the richly descriptive narrative-in-drawings are a visually eclectic mix of individuals and settings, from moody cityscapes to shadowed interiors that take on themes of exile, solitude, illness, displacement, and growing old in America. The work was inspired, in part, by the artist’s residency at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in May 2004.

Danijel Zezelj is a cartoonist and illustrator from Zagreb, Croatia. The author of thirteen graphic novels and short comic collections, his work has a hauntingly dark and lonely nature and Kafkaesque illustrations that often examine the darker side of life. For eight years, he lived in Seattle where he worked for The New York Times Book Review and DC Comics. Zezelj now lives in New York City.

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For more info on Danijel Žeželj and his work, visit
the artist's official website.