Hi!
I’m Dragana Radanović.
I’m a comics artist, researcher, and someone who regularly makes weird faces while drawing.
I love stories. Especially the ones that ask hard questions. I work somewhere between drawing and thinking, between the “how” and the “why”. My comics often dig into topics like memory, childhood, war, and the stuff that’s hard to say out loud. Not always fun, but always honest.
I studied Graphic Storytelling at LUCA School of Arts and did a PhD on how childhood during times of war is drawn (yes, it’s heavy—but also surprisingly full of hope). Now I’m a postdoctoral researcher at KU Leuven and a teaching assistant in Brussels, helping students tell their own stories through comics.
I’m also one of the co-founders of Comic-Aunties (Stripotetke), a collective supporting young comic artists in Serbia, especially women and other folks whose work doesn’t always get the spotlight.
I live in Belgium, but my everyday life stretches across four languages: Serbian, Flemish, English, and Greek. It’s a layered kind of life, and I think that shows in the stories I care about.
And when I draw, the world disappears for a while. (It’s nice.)
PUBLICATIONS
COMICS
2023. At Home (Besna Kobila, Stripotetke, Serbia)
2023. Breaking The Silence (System Comics, Serbia)
2021. Drita’s story (Centre For Public History, Serbia)
2019. How to Escape the Loop?, collaborative comics (PFC#6 : ChiFouMi des étudiants, Angouleme, France)
2018. Orpheus and Eurydice (The Opera House, Brussels, Belgium)
SELF-PUBLICATIONS
2019. Socks lost in war (LUCA School of Arts, Belgium)
2019. Zwartezustersstraat 16 (LUCA School of Arts, Belgium)
2018. There is no more sugar (LUCA School of Arts, Belgium)
PICTURE BOOKS
2025. Ilustratori, U susret Ilustraciji, Serbia.
2021. Sto lica stolica, Kreativni centar, Belgrade, Serbia.
2020. Moj Imaginarijum, Umetnička knjiga, Podgorica, Montenegro.
2015. Zdravlje je najveće bogatstvo, Crveni krst Novog Sada, Novi Sad, Serbia.
WEBCOMICS
2020. Robert, Pulp de Luxe, Belgium.
2019. The First Day on Earth, Pulp de Luxe, Belgium.
INTERVIEWS
N1 Television, Plezir Magazine, PulpDeLuxe, Destelheide Hanenbos
RESIDENCIES
2020. La maison des auteurs, Comics book residency, Angouleme, France.
2019. Experimental comics residency-laboratory (PFC#6: ChiFouMi des étudiants) Angouleme, France.
2018. ReLocation, Visual arts residency, Destelheide Hanenbos, Belgium.
EXHIBITIONS
2024. What Should We Tell Them?, solo exhibition, Sint Lucas Gallery Brussels, Belgium;
2023. Beyond Comics: A look into the artworks of comics authors from Serbia/ Izvan kvadrata: Pogled na umetničke radove stripskih autora iz Srbije, International Comics Festival of Belgrade’s Student Cultural Center, Belgrade, Serbia;
2023. New Image of Childhood-experiments, Cultural Centre of Serbia, Paris, France;
2023. At Home, a collective exhibition of the works from the anthology of comics, Galerija Bate Mihailovića, Pančevo, Serbia;
2023. The Island of Love, Nova Festival of Contemporary Comics, Pančevo, Serbia
2022. Horizons, the exhibition of authors in residence, House of Authors, Angouleme, France;
2021. 51st Golden Pen of Belgrade, the 16th International Biennial of Illustration, Konak kneginje Ljubice, Belgrade, Serbia;
2020. Nova Festival, the festival of contemporary comics, Galerija Bate Mihailovića, Pančevo, Srbija;
2019. “LUCAgrad19”, collective exhibition, LUCA School of Arts, Brussels, Belgium;
2019. “From HAUNTED to GHOSTED”, collective exhibition, EESI, Angouleme, France;
2019. “Socks lost in war”, pages, Balkan festival of young comics creators, Leskovac, Serbia;
2018. “LUCAgrad18”, collective exhibition, LUCA School of Arts, Brussels, Belgium;
2018. “ReLocation“, collective exhibition, Destelheide Hanenbos, Belgium;
2018. “Orpheus and Eurydice“, collective exhibition, graphic stories for the Community project Orpheo and Majnun, MUNTPUNT, Brussels, Belgium;
2017. “Vacation time” and “Freedom“, short comics, Balkan festival of young comics creators, Leskovac, Serbia;
2015, 2016 and 2018. Exhibited illustrations, Bookill Fest, Book illustration Festival, Novi Sad, Serbia;