Nightmares and Daydreams: A.C. 2020: A Collection of Wordless Single-Page Visual Essays by Award-Winning Artist and Designer Mirko ILIC - Hardcover
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Visual explorations inspired by Leonard Cohen, Dylan Thomas, Winsor McCay and others to reflect the anxieties, uncertainties, and daily observations from the distinct imagination of Mirko Ilic
In 2020, New York-based artist and designer Mirko Ilic started drawing self-contained single-page stories created to reflect the mood of an unprecedented time. He called this collection "After Covid 2020" or "A.C. 2020."
Ilic continued to create these visual essays even as the lockdowns slowly lifted, channeling his anxieties and observations into striking and surreal images that combine personal imagination with motifs and inspiration from music, fine art, comics, and more.
Shocking and provocative, captivating and meditative, this sequence of illustrations paints a unique picture of a man's inner turmoil amidst a crumbling world. Nightmares and Daydreams: A.C. 2020 is a testament to both a period of unprecedented upheaval and the stunning talent of its award-winning author.
Mirko Ilic is a Bosnian-born comics artist and graphic designer based in New York. He spent his formative years as a youth in Yugoslavia during the Communist-bloc era, where he became known for his early illustrations for comic books and magazines. His comics were then published internationally in Heavy Metal, Metal Hurlant, and Marvel's Epic Illustrated, among others. Soon after he moved to the United States, he became the art director of TIME magazine's international edition and The New York Times' op-ed pages. Throughout his illustrious career, Ilic has collaborated with design luminaries such as Steven Heller and Milton Glaser, including on Milton Glaser: POP (The Monacelli Press, 2023). He has designed album covers for Rage Against the Machine and created film titles for You've Got Mail. His works (including some of his comics) are in the collections of the MOMA, the SFMOMA, the Smithsonian, Die Nueue Sammlung, and many other global institutions. His biography Mirko Ilic Fist to Face by Dejan Krsic was published in 2012 (PRINT). Nightmares and Daydreams: A.C. 2020 (SelfMadeHero, 2026) signals his return to the visual medium he loves: comics.
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