Vhrsti (born 1 August 1975) is a
Czech
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illustrator, writer, children's book author, comics artist and scenarist,
member of the unofficial new wave of Czech and Slovak comics Generation Zero and the Czech Cartoonists' Union. He lives in
Pilsen in the
Czech Republic
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.
Biography
Vhrsti was born in
Rokycany
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, in the former
Czechoslovakia
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. He graduated from technical high school in
Carlsbad, ceramic (porcelain visual processing) and the Faculty of Education at the
University of West Bohemia
The University of West Bohemia ( cs, Západočeská univerzita v Plzni, ZČU) is a university in Plzeň, Czech Republic. It was founded in 1991 and consists of nine faculties.
History
The university was formed by the merger of the ''College of Me ...
in
Pilsen (field of visual culture).
Child development
He is devoted to writing children's books (''I'm not Afraid of the Dark'', ''Holidays in Heaven'') and providing illustrations for other author's works. He has become the only illustrator of ''Vojtech Steklac'' replacing
Adolf Born
Adolf Born (12 June 1930 – 22 May 2016) was a Czech painter, illustrator, filmmaker and caricaturist, "known for his murkily-tinted pictures of bizarre fauna, and Victorian gentlemen in top hats and top coats". Schmadel, L. D., ''Dictionary of M ...
on the series of books about Borik et al. Vhrsti illustrates fairytale books and legends by Marketa Cekanova and Zdenek Zajicek as well as fairy CD covers. His images adorn the Museum of ghosts and fairy tales in
Pilsen.
Comics
First, he drew attention to himself by making a debut in three-page comics Peace in Slovenian anti-war anthology ''Warburger'' in 2003. In the same year won the Jury Prize at the International Saloon of young comics in
Belgrade
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for comics Blur. Subsequently, his comics strips became published in many periodicals, including ''AARGH!'', ''KomiskFEST! Revue or Slunicko'' (Czech Republic) and magazines published in
Ukraine
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and Italy. In 2006 also collaborated with the newspaper ''Denik'' in which he published his series of ''Endless Tram Strip''. In the same year he won The Best Comics Website prize in the Czech Republic. The Fisherman comics was published in a special issue dedicated to
the International Olympic Winter Games TORINO 2006. Since 2008, one-page autobiographical stories have been published in a literary magazine ''Plz''.
Cartoons
Vhrsti's simple clean lines and his penchant for pastel colors make him ideally suited to work on children's cartoon series, meditative stories for adults and classic cartoons – since 2005 is a member of the Czech Union of Cartoonists. The cartoon on the topic of dangerous drawing won the 2006 Certificate of Excellence from the National Press Club of Canada,
Ottawa, Ontario
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. In 2010 he was one of the guests at Cartoon International Meeting Point in
Pisek, The Czech Republic.
References
External links
*
Official website*
Artblog*
Official website of The Czech Cartoonists' Union*
Database of Eastern-European Comics*
I'm Not Afraid of the Dark Any More – book trailer on YouTube.com*
illustration accompanied article Prague “blob” doomed? – France24.com*
illustration accompanied article Le "Blob" de Prague condamné ? – France24.com
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1975 births
Living people
Writers from Plzeň
Czech children's writers
Czech male writers
Czech children's book illustrators
Artists from Plzeň
Writers who illustrated their own writing
Czech comics artists
University of West Bohemia alumni