Tomaž Lavrič: Stripi/Comics

Black and white, as befits a comic book, and of course a true comic book lover cannot help but take one of them home and read it avidly from the first page to the last. There is more than a handfull of them.
The catalogue Tomaž Lavrič: Comics is a rather large booklet with 167 pages, and as the title suggests, it is a bilingual Slovenian-English edition, which is certainly commendable, since we live in a globalised world.

Thus, all the accompanying texts are translated into English, and all the Slovenian comics are subtitled in English. These comics have not been translated due to their local specificity, ha, besides the potica, yet another proof that Slovenians have a few more peculiarities up our sleeves that will never make us blend in with the rest of the world. The fact that Lavrič's comics in the languages of our former common homeland have not been translated into Slovene does not, in principle, bother the Slovene reader, unless he or she is the kind of citizen who pastes stickers with the Carantan eagle on the walls and sends all non-Slovenes to somewhere far to the south in every pub debate. "He's a good boy, isn't he Dik? Calm, well-shaven ... not like those chupavi hooligans!" says his Serbian neighbour about one such noble Slovenian boy in the comic strip of the same name. There are, of course, not a few Slovenians full of national pride, but I doubt that there are many comics readers among them, at least not the ones with a capital letter: the author's Comics, where Lavrice's certainly belong.