Croatia, Europe’s dumping ground
© Boban Pesov
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Boban Pesov’s comics
Boban Pesov is an Italian comic artist of Macedonian origins. Born in Kočani in 1988, he has lived in Alba, Piedmont, since 1996. A graduate in Architecture from the Polytechnic University of Turin, he initially launched a satirical YouTube channel before switching to comics.
In 2025, he published “C’era una volta l’est” (“Once Upon a Time in the East”), his first graphic novel, which tells three stories between Italy and North Macedonia.
He is currently working on “Cattivo vicinato” (“Bad Neighborhood”), a story set in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992, scheduled for release in 2027. Starting in September 2026, he draws a weekly illustrated column for OBCT.
