Darko Macan (born 1966) is an author and illustrator who has created and collaborated on comics, essays and science fiction and fantasy. He is also an editor.
Born in Zagreb, Croatia (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 Biukovic submitted their work to Dark Horse Comics. He has also done Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse for Disney comics. Twice he was nominated for Eisner Award (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 two children's books. He has won four SFera Awards and one Grigor Vitez Award.
Under the pseudonym Cecile Quintall 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.
Partial bibliography
Science Fiction and Fantasy prose
- Ona koju vole bogovi, novel (with Tatjana Jambrisak, Goran Konvicni and Damir Staresinic; SFera and Nova stvarnost, 1998)
- Koza boje masline, novel (SFera and Nova stvarmost, 2000), SFera Award
- Teksas Kid (i jos neka moja braca), short story collection, (Mentor, 2003)
Books for kids
- Knjige lazu! (Znanje, 1997), Grigor Vitez Award
- Pavo protiv Pave (Mozaik kniga, 2002)
Comics
- Citati (with Edvin Biukovic; Stripagent, 1993, 2000)
- Strossmayer (with Radovan Devlic and Dusan Gacic; Glas koncila, 1993)
- Grendel Tales: Devils and Deaths (with Edvin Biukovic; Dark Horse Comics, 1996)
- Star Wars: X-Wing: The Phantom Affair (with Mike Stackpole and Edvin Biukovic; Dark Horse Comics, 1997)
- Borovnica (Skolska knjiga, 1998)
- Tarzan: Carson of Venus (with Igor Kordej ; Dark Horse Comics, 1999)
- 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 Stef Bartolic; Profil, 2001)
- Star Wars: Jedi vs Sith (with Ramon Bachs ; Dark Horse Comics, 2002)
- La Bette Noire 1-5 (with Milan Jovanovic; Drugi pogled, 2001 and 2002)
- Mister Macak (with Robert Solanovic and Tihomir Tikulin; Bookglobe, 2002)
- Cable: The End (with Igor Kordej , David Tischmann and Mike Huddlestone ; Marvel Comics, 2002)
See also
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