Đorđe Lobačev

Đorđe Lobačev or Yuriy Lobachev (; 1909–2002) was a Soviet Russian and Serbian-Yugoslavian comic strip author and illustrator. He was one of the pioneers of the comic strip in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in the interwar period. Most of his comics from this period have themes from the history of Serbia and Serbian folklore. He lived Yugoslavia until 1949 when he was expelled during the Informbiro period because he was a Soviet citizen. He lived in Romania for few years before moving to the Soviet Russia where he spent the rest of his life. He was the author of the first Soviet comic strip Hurricane Comes to the Rescue in 1966.

He is widely regarded as one of the founding fathers of both Serbian and Russian comic strip.

Biography Lobačev was born Yuriy Pavlovich Lobachev om 4 March 1909 His family spent the time of the Balkan Wars (1912-1913) in the Kingdom of Montenegro and he was baptized in Cetinje. During the World War I, he lived in Kosovska Mitrovica, on the island of Crete and in Thessaloniki. he moved to Belgrade, just a month after first Serbian comic strip was published by Vlasta Belkić. But, Lobačev was not satisfied with imitating American comics, so he decided to create authentic Serbian comics. He created first comic on the theme from Serbian literature Hajduk Stanko, based on the novel by Janko Veselinović. He is regarded as one of the most important comic strip authors in both Serbia and Russia, and is often referred to as the "father of Serbian comics" Belgrade School of Comics was renamed "Đorđe Lobačev" in his honor in 1996. In 2011, Pavel Fetisov filmed a documentary "Yuriy Lobachev, the Father of Russian Comics" (Юрий Лобачев. Отец русского комикса). Lobačev's book of memoirs titled When Volga met Sava was published in Belgrade in 1997.