''Technotise'' is a

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comic album created by artist Aleksa Gajić and writer Darko Grkinić. The comic was adapted into

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'' Technotise: Edit & I''.

Creation and publication

''Technotise'' was originally created in 1998 by artist Aleksa Gajić and writer Darko Grkinić, as Gajić's thesis on the Faculty of Applied Arts,

University of Arts in Belgrade The University of Arts in Belgrade ( sr-cyr, Универзитет уметности у Београду, Univerzitet umetnosti u Beogradu) is a public university in Serbia. It was founded in 1957 as the Academy of Arts to unite four academies. ...

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/ref> The story is set in the year 2074. Gajić stated that he chose that particular year because in 2074 he would be 100 years old."Beograd budućnosti", vreme.rs
/ref> ''Technotise'' was originally published as a comic album in 2001 by Serbian publisher System Comics. The album was promoted with an animated

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created by Gajić. The

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track, entitled "Bombona?" ("Candy?"), was composed by Gajić himself.Aleksa Gajić - "Bombona?", YouTube.com
/ref> In 2009, System Comics reissued ''Technotise'', the reissue featuring four bonus pages with the story of how Edit and her boyfriend Bojan met and several pages with Gajić's drawings and concept art.''Technotise'' at System Comics website
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Plot

The story is set in 2074

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. The main character is Edit, an art student. She and her friends discover a legendary tunnel connecting

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and

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, made during Ottoman–Habsburg wars.

Animated film

In 2009, the comic book was adapted into an animated feature film '' Technotise: Edit & I''. Although based on the comic book, the film features a different plot. In the film, Edit is a psychology student who, after failing the same university exam for the sixth time, decides to visit a dealer on the black market who installs a stolen military chip in her body that will record everything she sees to help pass the exam. The chip develops a parallel personality and affords Edit abilities greater than she ever imagined.

References

External links

* * * {{Official website, http://www.technotise.com/, ''Technotise: Edit & I'' official website Serbian comics titles Serbian graphic novels 1998 comics debuts Works set in the 2070s Comics set in the 21st century Belgrade in fiction Science fiction comics Serbian comics adapted into films Comics adapted into animated films Fictional Serbian people Serbian comics characters Comics set in Belgrade Serbian science fiction