Stripburger

Being multilingual (Slovenian and English), the magazine has developed into an important resource on the international (especially European) comic scene.

Stripburger was established in 1992 by the Strip Core collective — Samo Ljubešić, Jani Mujić, Božo Rakočević, Dare Kuhar, and Katerina Mirović — as an international art fanzine, thus becoming a pioneer of independent comics in Slovenia.

Occasionally, Stripburger publishes special issues that focus on specific themes like ecology, sex, madness, anti-Nazism, human rights, war, handicaps, and work.

Notable issues: Varying in genre and expression, Stripburger's four collections include stand-alone comic books by different artists.

Published artists: Claudio Piersanti (script), Daniel Clowes, Dave Cooper, David B., Gipi, Gunnar Lundkvist, Helena Klakočar, Jacques Tardi, Joann Sfar, Julie Doucet, Kim Deitch, Lars Fiske, Lorenzo Mattotti, Marcel Ruijters, Matthias Lehmann, Max Andersson, Nicolas Presl, Posy Simmonds, Riad Sattouf, Simon Deitch.

[8] Stripburger collaborated with the Slovene Ethnographic Museum, which in 2006 hosted the widely acclaimed anthology Honey Talks — comics inspired by painted beehive panels reinterpreting the 19th-century folk art, with works by 12 international comics artists (including Marcel Ruijters, Milorad Krstić, Jakob Klemenčič, Koco, Anke Feuchtenberger, Vladan Nikolić, Matthias Lehmann, Rutu Modan, and Danijel Žeželj).

In 2009, Stripburger produced the international exhibition "Greetings from Cartoonia" in Slovene Ethnographic Museum to complement the special issue, an anthology, of the same name.

in Prague, Czech Republic (2014); Biblioteca Civica del Comune di Pordenone in Pordenone, Italy; Nextcomic Festival in Steyr, Austria; 30th Helsinki Comics Festival in Finland; Gallery SC in Zagreb, Croatia (2015); L'An Vert, Le Cercle du Laveu, Le Comptoir in Liege, Belgium; Institut Saint-Luc Tournai, Maison de la Culture de le Tournai in Tournai, Belgium; Stockholm International Comics Festival, Sweden; Tenderete Festival in Valencia, Spain; AltCom 2016 in Malmö, Sweden (2016); Gutter fest in Barcelona, Spain; and Oslo Comics Expo, Norway (2017).

In October 2017 Stripburger co-produced the Tinta Comics Festival together with Kino Šiška, Zavod Stripolis, Radio Študent, Strip.art.nica Buch/Zavod Strip art, and VigeVageKnjige.

Cover of Stripburger #70, issued on 25th anniversary of magazine (2017). Art by Caroline Sury.