Tanja Komadina

Tanja Komadina (1976) is an illustrator, comics artist, graphic designer, and art editor at the Mladinska Knjiga Publishing House. She is interested in the intense interweaving of text and artistic images, which results in imaginatively illustrated literary works. She mainly illustrates children’s fiction, collaborates with children’s magazines, and creates comics and novel covers for adults. She provided the artwork for a Maribor Puppet Theatre puppet show with characters, adapted from a comic book. Her works in the fields of comics and illustration have received the Golden Pear Rating. Several of the books she illustrated have been included in the White Ravens selection (A Fine Bicycle, Behind Nine Trees, The Secret KRVZ Society, The Magic Bone). Her comic book A Fine Bicycle has been translated into Swedish. She has exhibited her works in Slovenia and abroad, receiving accolades, nominations, and awards for them, including a nomination for the Kristina Brenkova Original Slovenian Picture Book Award for The Magic Bone, as well as the Levstik Award for her illustrations in the book The Lady With the Hat by Maša Ogrizek.

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