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Beginning in Style :)

Finally, I’ve come around to writing this Blog in English. As it’s obvious to the World, when you want to be heard, you’ve got to write in English. And since this art exhibit did have an international character, it’s just one more reason to write about it first. Anyways, here goes... ------------------------------------ Mirko Ilic UNDER PRESSURE / POD PRITISKOM ART GALLERY BiH / UMJETNICKA GALERIJA BiH SARAJEVO / MARCH - MART 2005. I 'll start with some biography info: Mirko Ilic was born in Bijeljina (BiH) in 1956, but lived most of his life in Zagreb, Croatia. There he finished the Art School and even published his first illustration in 1972. I n 1975 he starts regular drawing for several local magazines (Studentski list, Polet, Start, Danas...) and even for international magazines Panorama and Pardon. From 1976 to 1979 he's the leader of a comic book group called 'Novi Kvadrat' / New Square that included some famous artists (few of them still famous across the Globe