about the author:
Igor Hofbauer (Zagreb, 1974) is an underground illustrator, comic artist (member of the collective Komikaze) and poster drawer - well known for his work for the Club Močvara. He graduate painting on the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. As an artist Hofbauer finds in underground music scene very close to his mode of expression not just as an isnpiration for his visual art but also as a musician (he's a drummer). He composed music for several dance productions. He has exhibited his works in Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Greece, Netherlands and Portugal. Hofbauer's poster was included in the respectable book The Art of Modern Rock : The Poster Explosion(2004) which include the finest work from more than 350 international studios and artists. Together with writer Edo Popović, Hofbauer published four volumes of illustrated stories: Klub, Ako vam se jednom..., Gospa od Bluda and Betonske priče.

feedback:
great antologic volume of short stories in the same nocturnal world printed in grey, black and some red touches... hipnotic, magical and intriguing Passenger Press we totally sold out of Prison Stories at Brighton ZineFest, it caused a real storm! Corndog C'est trés bien ce bouquin Jean-Christophe Menu (L'Association)

International distribution: By Zebra (Europe), Corndog (UK) and Livros Portugueses (Spain)

Although the efforts of the Slovenian collective Stripburger in promoting comics from the "other Europe", it seems that few authors have craved the map of alternative comics world besides Serbians Aleksandar Zograf and Wostok and the Slovene Jakob Klemencic.
Croatian Igor Hofbauer will be one of the authors who probably will fix this vacuum. Known for its Rock gig posters (of the Močvara club) that are omnipresent in the city of Zagrev, since 2006, his energies had gone to the comics when the first edition of Prison Stories came out by the small label Otompotom.
This third edition of Prison Stories summarizes his comics production, gathers seven comics (four of them are brand new!) that varies between short 4 pages tales to 30-something long and disturbing stories, having in common theme the lack of freedom in some environments, such as totalitarian or capitalist. Hofbauer imagination invokes the bizarre Balkan folklore like the story of a romantic (turbo folk?) regime singer that cannibalizes other artists. Another story is about a band starting in the days when Rock was forbidden in the communist countries through the "opening of the East" until the slaughters of the Balkans. Other comic is a Pop allegory that implicates one junkie monkeyman and Andy Warhol simulacrum. It’s pure recommendable queerness…

published by MMMNNNRRRG in the bitter year of 2009, this augmented and improved edition was released in Angoulême Comics Festival.

500 copies in 120 pages b/w + red, 16,5x23cm in Renovaprint Creme 100g, Softcover 240g Cromo.
isbn: 978-972-88527-6-3

you can find the book @
CHILI, BdMania, Fábrica Features, Kingpin Books, Letra Livre (Lisboa), Dr. Kartoon (Coimbra) Mundo Fantasma (Porto), Shop Suey (Leiria), Matéria Prima (Lisbon / Porto), Neurotitan (Berlin) and Le Feu Rouge (Poitiers).