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RICHARD FISCHER & DŽIAN BABAN (CZ) – RVÁČOV 2

Exhibition

Saturday, October 12, 2024 at 4:45 PM


The second part of the comic novel is set in the 1990s. The generation of children from the 80s has already left the city and in the wild post-revolutionary times, the territory of Prague's Old Town and Lesser Town is getting smaller and smaller for the next generation. Courtyards and land are being locked up or reconstructed, houses are being transferred to private ownership. Nevertheless, the first half of the 90s was no less a unique time, and Stínadla was full of many adventures. A new group of heroes appear in the story, but the heroes of the first volume also return, now as recent adults. The plot again takes us to several time layers. From the noughties of the 21st century to deep into the Middle Ages. The story then culminates in mid-August 2002, when a flood with the magnitude expected to occur roughly once a century rushes through Prague.


Richard Fischer is a comic artist and contributes illustrations to magazines and books. He creates comics using a distinctive method of cartoon collage. From detailed pencil sketches, to the preparation of a range of papers from his extensive archive of different colours, ages and deterioration (his favourites are age-yellowed office papers and tracing paper, used cut paper, cheap wrapping paper, but also new and expensive cardboard or scraps of rare baroque handmade papers from the 18th century), he creates his own comic strip. He combines them with unusable glossy toilet paper from the seventies), after transferring the lines of the drawing with the help of a transparency or a photocopier onto individual papers, which he cuts with a scalpel and glues into the original composition. He continues with a title drawing in ink markers, resulting in a multi-coloured, layered image. This is also how he prepared his best-known comic Rváčov (2019), whose second sequel he and Džian Baban completed in 2023 and for which he received the Muriel Award for Best Artwork in the same year.


Džian Baban composes for feature and documentary film, television and radio, theatre and commercial sphere (festival jingles, commercials). As a sound designer he has participated in many exhibitions and cooperates with Czech Radio: e.g. January 2024 radio plays Mizení and Why is Max such, spring 2022 exhibition of the Memory of Nation Institute in Olomouc, etc. He is currently involved in several upcoming feature films (e.g. sci-fi Krystal together with Vojtěch Mašek). As a screenwriter he writes for film, theatre and comics. The comic novel The Dragon Never Sleeps (script with Vojtěch Mašek, illustrations by Jiří Grus) was translated into French and published by the Belgian-French publishing house Casterman in 2019. For his scripts for comic novels, he has received several Muriel awards for best screenplay or best comic book (e.g., in 2021, Rváčov I.) In the theatre, since 2005, he has been preparing, together with Vojtěch Mašek, probably the only existing Czech theatre series, the comedy Jožkalipnikjebožíčlověkaneumílhát!, which in 2023 had 21 full-length sequels.