Posted by: stuart (18 posts)
April 26, 2008 8:13 AM

This is an image I made for a small edition art book that collects together a bunch of cool artists from all over the world that are influenced by eastern european aesthetics/folk lore. The image itself is based on an idea I've got floating around my head about a florist and his wife. More soon when the book is available...

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Posted by: stuart (18 posts)
April 14, 2008 9:53 AM

Here's one of the final images that was used by Barclay's Bank on a huge billboard outside a new branch in Manchester that celebrates the city's achievements.

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Posted by: stuart (18 posts)
April 7, 2008 8:00 AM

Here's another preview page from the book proposal I'm working on at the moment... Since last week's post, I have been asked to contribute to uber cool comics site Partyka and have been featured in another Serbian magazine article, this time in
Slovo Magazine- which again I can't read because it's in Serbian.

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Posted by: stuart (18 posts)
March 31, 2008 9:32 AM

Here's a page from a comic I'm working on at the moment about two brothers growing up in Serbia during WWII. Don't hold your breath though- it might be a wee while before it finds way out into the paper world. A serbian newspaper called "Vesti" found out about the way my Serbian heritage has shaped my work and featured an article about me last week. The only problem is, I cant read it because I can't read or write Serbian- doh.

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Posted by: stuart (18 posts)
March 24, 2008 8:41 AM

More new framed work for sale at my online shop. This here print illustrates a slavic female weather demon "Ala"- bad tempered monsters whose main purpose is to destroy crops. They are rumoured to eat children which they would gobble up with huge wooden spoons! A given ala may look like a black wind, a gigantic creature of indistinct form, an old lady or a bird like a raven or a crow. Eagles, however, are regarded as defenders against Ale, chasing them away from fields and thus preventing them from bringing hail clouds overhead. A 9.25"x9.25"" high quality laser print on 200gsm card presented in a white wooden frame (11.5"x11.5"x0.5"), signed and numbered on back of print, a limited edition of Ten prints... only $15.00. C'mon over and see if there's any other prints that tickle your fancy...

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Posted by: stuart (18 posts)
March 17, 200810:41 AM

I have a fresh new website- go check it owt!www.stuartkolakovic.co.uk There's still a few little extras that need adding- including a microsite containing the whole nine meter plus of "Never Been" that's in the pipeline...

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Posted by: stuart (18 posts)
March 10, 2008 5:10 AM

An image for an article about The National Survey of Health and Development that appeared in The Guardian here in the U.K. last week.

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Posted by: stuart (18 posts)
March 3, 2008 5:14 PM

...for an album column about alternative country/americana music, featuring the likes of Radar Brothers, Puerto Muerto, Murder By Death, Mark Pickerel And His Praying Hands. You can tell by the amount of "panels" I've been drawing recently that I'm pretty keen to start on my comic...

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Posted by: stuart (18 posts)
February 25, 2008 5:12 AM

A double page spread for El Bosque magazine. Some of you might notice I've drawn this instrument being played before, a "Gusle". Except this time I've tried to show what the musician is actually singing about. This image is for a themed "Forests, plants and flowers" issue.

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Posted by: stuart (18 posts)
February 18, 2008 8:14 AM

The past couple of weeks have been a drag, doing real bland corporate illustration work. To keep myself from going insane I've tried to find enough time to sketch some of the other ideas that have been bouncing round my head for my new graphic novel, which I should hopefully be starting in the next fortnight. Hopefully.
You can learn more about my comic plans at an online interview with comics Brainiac, Matt Badham here.

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Posted by: stuart (18 posts)
February 11, 2008 6:00 PM

Illustrating an All Girls Skateboard Competition at a skatepark in Manchester presented itself as welcoming break from the other heavily art directed illustration I've been doing, and was fun to do. It finally gave me the chance to play around with some hand rendered type and to indulge in some 50's/60's surf style graphics. The hardest part was trying to come up something that wasn't sexist, or even just plain girly. I dared myself to use pink, is that p.c. these days?

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Posted by: stuart (18 posts)
January 22, 2008 6:55 AM

This is an image for Hong Kong's "The 1&Only Magazine"- the Love Addicts Issue.
The image is available as a handsome wee baby framed 4"x7" print, a limited edition of ten, from my online shop for only $9. The mini comics I have featured on Invisibleman are also available-
"A Gosling" -16 page A6 size full colour comic,laser printed onto Heritage White 200 gsm paper, machine stitched with a 260 gsm dust jacket. $4
"Ja Ljubav Te"- 42 page full colour wee tiny mini micro comic, machine stitched and laser printed onto Five Seasons (100% recycled) paper. $2

Cheap as chips.

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Posted by: stuart (18 posts)
December 17, 200711:56 AM

More snippets from my solo exhibition "Never Been"; a Summer scene with a Pig farmer crossing a river (I don't know why, but pigs are my favorite thing to draw at the moment, I think it's because they're so fat and stodgy with no real structure that you can draw them however you like. As long as it has a snout, it will look like a pig.) and a Summer night's party scene.

The show got some excellent press in this week's MEN's City Life Magazine Supplement, which you can read here.

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Posted by: stuart (18 posts)
December 13, 2007 8:10 AM

So the show, "Never Been" at Projekts MCR, is finally up, and the opening night was last Friday.

Continue reading "Never Been Opening Night and Mini Comics"
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Posted by: stuart (18 posts)
December 3, 2007 8:36 AM

Less than four days before the opening of my show in Manchester and I'm still doing artwork- surely not a good sign. Luckily I've saved the fun stuff 'till last- another wee baby A6 full colour mini comic. This page here might look a bit different to the other work I've posted here on Invisibleman, but there's a good reason for it; because the book is going to be printed so small, I have to make sure the images inside will be as clear and legible as possible. The story (again set somewhere in pre-WWII Yugoslavia) is about a little boy trying to convince his Dad to let him keep a Gosling he found in the wheat fields. The mini-comic is going to be dispensed from a home-made vending machine for £2, which providing I'm still alive, I'll post some pics of next week.

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Posted by: stuart (18 posts)
November 26, 200711:05 AM

Here's some sample crops taken from the giant image that's going to form the main part of my show here in sunny Manchester.

I'm really hoping people are going to look at it and make up their own little stories about what the hell these characters are up to and how they relate to each other. Also, a lovely chap from the BBC interviewed me about the upcoming show last week, you can read it here..

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Posted by: stuart (18 posts)
November 21, 2007 2:35 PM

Hi, my name is Stuart Kolakovic and I'm a fledgling illustrator from the Midlands (home to Black Sabbath and industrial pollution) in the U.K. I've kindly been invited as a guest artist here on invisibleman for the next month, so I'm pretty stoked. This here is a flyer for my first solo show here in Manchester (home to The Smiths and industrial pollution) that opens this December. It's getting pretty hectic so close to the opening, and I'm still doing work for it! The main "piece" for the exhibition is going to be one long drawing that wraps around the back wall of the gallery space- not a comic strip as such, more of a panoramic illustration of a year in the life of a fictional eastern european village set somewhere in the early 20th century. This is basically me being really self indulgent after doing one too many bland illustration jobs.

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