Tolerance Posters

I am pleased to let you know that, I’ve just received the first copies of my series of visual essays “A.C. 2020,” which has been collected and published for the first time for a worldwide audience as “Nightmares and Daydreams: A.C. 2020.” Featuring a new foreword by   Steven Heller   and a new afterword by   Dave McKean , the new English-language edition by U.K.-based publisher   SelfMadeHero  will be available exclusively in hardcover. The series was originally published in Croatian in 2025.  You can pre-order the book on Amazon   here , which will release on September 3rd in the U.K. and September 29th in North Americ      

Within a few days of my posters for the  15th Miroslav Krleža Festival  being put up around Zagreb, Croatia, they were torn up and vandalized.  This is not the first time . This has been happening for the past three years. The posters for the Miroslav Krleža Festival are probably the most vandalized posters in Zagreb in recent years. Miroslav Krleža  (1893-1981) was a Croatian writer, widely considered the greatest of the 20th century. I created his portrait with his characteristic hat, and because one of his most famous novels is titled Zastave (The Flags), I made his profile from all of the incarnations of the Croatian flag during his lifetime. In the past, neo-Nazis and nationalists have satisfied themselves by tearing up posters, scratching off Krleža's name and the red stars, and carving a swastika next to one of them. This time, they were not satisfied just with drawing a swastika. This time, they decided to add two more symbols of hatred to the swastika. Lette...