The critic is a part of the fight, the harbinger of good news, a missionary amidst the great unwashed. Neither the enemy, nor someone standing in the corner with his arms folded, dissecting the show in search for the fatal mistake. A rock critic shouldn't be someone outside the rock scene itself. How to write about rock, if not from the heart? Winner of the Award GRIGOR VITEZ 2005 for text He is the editor of the quarterly Q STRIP magazine, has two successful weblogs and he wrote this bio, because nobody else would. Paul) i Koža boje masline (Olive Skin), won two national SF awards.

He is the author of four novels - two of which, Knjige lažu! (Books Lie!) and Žuta minuta (Yellow Fever), won the Croatian national award for younger readers while the other two, Pavo protiv Pave (Paul vs. Meow, La Bete Noire and Martina Mjesec series). He continued drawing his own comics ( Borovnica, Bočko) while writing a number of others (most notably Svebor and Ember, Mr. Darko went on to write Tarzan, Star Wars (4 trades out there), Donald Duck, Hellblazer, Mickey Mouse, Sandman Presents: The Corinthian, Captain America, Soldier X and more.

Some of that early stuff, drawn by Edvin Biukovic and collected in the book called 'Citati' ('Quotations'), landed Edvin and him a warmly-accepted Grendel Tales assignment in 1994 (nominated for the Eisner award.

A writing/drawing gig on 'Tom & Jerry' followed and then he began selling scripts to an agency headed by Igor Kordey in 1989. He sold his first SF story in 1986 and the first comic in 1988. Darko Macan was born in 1966 in Zagreb, Croatia, where he is still living.

Koža boje masline by Darko Macan