Beyond Lost Childhood: Questioning Traditional Perspectives on Childhood Through Visual Storytelling. European Comic Art (2025)
An article that draws on artist’s wartime childhood memories to explore how visual dialogues can unsettle dominant ideas about childhood by bringing overlooked, fragile experiences to the surface and opening space for more imaginative, non-instrumental ways of engaging with the world.
Beyond East and West Auto (Art) Ethnography: Challenges and Reflections. The International Journal of Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts (2024)
An article that examines how Eastern European artists navigate the task of representing individual and collective memory through artistic practice, drawing on the authors’ experiences in comics and documentary filmmaking to uncover how cultural disparities, geopolitical histories, and sensitive historical contexts shape the processes and possibilities of portraying shared pasts.
Drawing the Revolution: A Visual Archive of the Uprising in Serbia, Drawing the Times (2025)
A collaborative piece by Dragana Radanović and Guido van Hengel that expands on the previous work, “Pumpaj!”, by creating a visual archive of the 2025 uprising in Serbia, emphasizing the power of comics and visual narratives in capturing and conveying the urgency of political movements.
Pumpaj! Serbian Protests, Strikes, and Comics, Drawing the Times (2025)
A blog post by Dragana Radanović and Guido van Hengel on contemporary comics, political activism, and the role of visual storytelling in documenting and mobilizing social movements in Serbia.
Review of the graphic novel Nowhere Girl. Politikin Zabavnik (2024)
This is a review of Nowhere Girl, a graphic novel that follows eleven-year-old Magali as she faces her growing fear of school and discovers solace in the music of The Beatles.
The review was written for Politikin Zabavnik, one of the longest-running and most influential Serbian weekly magazines dedicated to culture, literature, comics, and popular science since 1939.
You draw like a child! Interrogating aetonormative tendencies in imitations of children’s drawings in graphic narratives. Comicalités (2023)
An article on contemporary comics, artistic practice, and strategies for rethinking adult assumptions about children’s drawings to expand creative approaches in comics-making.