RICHARD FISCHER A DŽIAN BABAN (CZ) – RVÁČOV: COMIC SAGA OF VONTS

Exhibition

Saturday, October 10, 2020 at 4:30 PM


Richard Fischer and Džian Baban


In the 80s of the last century, bunches of teenagers located Prague's Old Town as Stínadla, a neighbourhood from Foglar´s novels. Desire to be inspired and be like Vonts from Foglar´s books soon grew into his own world full of unbelievable nevertheless real adventures. That time, a completely unique phenomenon was born out and the work started to live its own wild life in the life and awareness of the author. This comic is not a paraphrase or sequel of Foglar´s work. As imaginative literature, it's a story of teenagers from the 80s and 90s, half fiction and half authentical oral history of witnesses. A generation which experienced Prague's Old Town in a unique historical time like no other generation after. This is the venue where the comics takes place and a fictional storyline describes adventures of Foglar´s books readers in the streets of a decayed and largely displaced town. The comics inspired by true events have an ambition to stand beside Čermák and Fischer´s comics adaptations of Foglar´s stories, but offering more particular view of the real town scenes which both inspired Foglar and were a playground for his books' fans.