Summary
Max Brand: Trojica u mraku
If we had to decide on a single title that can be titled as the most characteristic, "most recognizable" (trademark) for comics in Croatia in its century-long history, but also for the entire area of the former Yugoslavia, the choice would fall on Trojica u mraku!
The comic strip was created according to the literary model of Max Brand (1892 – 1944), an American writer whose real name is Frederick Faust, with a screenplay by Krešimir Kovačić and drawings and comic direction by Andrija Maurović.
Max Brand has not been published in Croatia, four of his titles are listed in the NSK catalog, so this is an opportunity to get to know the author better. The first to point out the meaning of the comic and the book Trojica u mraku was university professor Vera Horvat Pintarić, Ph.D., in the study Andrija Maurović: comics and the action technique of gaze from 1973: "Max Brand does not create such personalities that are only actively present, but a hint and the psychology of the hero, which will later become the main driver of the dramatic plot..."
Trojica u mraku is a mystical-esoteric story about to a man who is not a man, about a horse that is a devil and about a dog that is actually a wolf. That man is the young man Dan who grew up in the forest, about whom legends tell that he was nursed by a she-wolf and remained a young man "with a boyish appearance and a ringing girlish voice, from whose eyes shines an unusual yellow glow". His constant companions are the wild horse Satan and the domesticated wolf Bart, over whom Dan has supernatural power and with whom he communicates as if they were human beings...
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