Little Negro Bu-ci-bu

Bu-ci-bu's Birth. Milko Bambič, 1927.

Little Negro Bu-ci-bu (Slovene: Zamorček Bu-ci-bu),[1] also mentioned as Buci-Bu,[2] was the first Slovene comic strip.[3] It was created by Milko Bambič and published in 1927 in the children's column of the monthly Naš glas ("Our Voice") in Trieste.[4] It is a story about an arrogant and tyrannic black king that with his false wisdom leads his people to a ruin[5] and commits a suicide.[6] It caused a controversy, because it was seen as a parody on the Italian leader Mussolini,[6] and the author predicted his demise.[3] The Italian Fascist authorities forbade Bambič's works.[6] He escaped from Trieste to Yugoslavia to avoid arrest.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Standeker, Špela (7 January 2008). "Zgodovina slovenskega stripa" [History of Slovene Comic Strip] (in Slovenian).
  2. ↑ "BAMBIČ Milko". Primorski slovenski biografski leksikon [The Littoral Slovene Biographical Lexicon (in Slovenian) 3. Goriška Mohorjeva družba [Hermagoras Society of Gorizia]. 1976. pp. 32–33. COBISS 53576.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Slovenia’s comic scene looks backward in time...". Wieninternational.at (Vienna: Compress VerlagsgesmbH & Co KG). 8 October 2011.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Bambič Milko". KB1909 Finančna delniška družba. 2007. Retrieved 21 March 2012.
  5. ↑ "80 let slovenskega stripa" [80 Years of Slovene Comic Strip]. Strip Fanzin (in Slovenian) (Stripoholik Society) (3). June 2007.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Santiago, Martin (31 July 2011). "PANORÁMICA DEL CÓMIC ESLOVENO" [A Panorame of Slovene Comic Strip]. Tebeosfera (in Spanish) (8). ISSN 1579-2811.