Little Negro Bu-ci-bu

Bu-ci-bu's Birth. Milko Bambič, 1927, Naš glas 3(9), p. 289

Little Negro Bu-ci-bu (Slovene: Zamorček Bu-ci-bu),^[1] also mentioned as Buci-Bu,^[2] was the first Slovene comic strip.^[3] It was created by Milko Bambič and published in 1927 in the children's column of the monthly Naš glas (Our Voice) in Trieste.^[4] It is a story about an arrogant and tyrannical black king that with his false wisdom leads his people to ruin^[5] and commits suicide.^[6] It caused a controversy, because it was seen as a parody on the Italian leader Mussolini,^[6] and the author predicted his demise.^[3] The Italian Fascist authorities forbade Bambič's works.^[6] He escaped from Trieste to Yugoslavia to avoid arrest.^[4]

References

1. Standeker, Špela (7 January 2008). "Zgodovina slovenskega stripa" [History of Slovene Comic Strip] (in Slovenian).
2. "BAMBIČ Milko". Primorski slovenski biografski leksikon [The Littoral Slovene Biographical Lexicon (in Slovenian). Vol. 3. Goriška Mohorjeva družba [Hermagoras Society of Gorizia]. 1976. pp. 32–33. COBISS 53576.
3. "Slovenia's comic scene looks backward in time..." Wieninternational.at. Vienna: Compress VerlagsgesmbH & Co KG. 8 October 2011. Archived from the original on 23 February 2013.
4. "Bambič Milko". KB1909 Finančna delniška družba. 2007. Retrieved 21 March 2012.
5. "80 let slovenskega stripa" [80 Years of Slovene Comic Strip] (PDF). Strip Fanzin (in Slovenian) (3). Stripoholik Society. June 2007.
6. Santiago, Martin (31 July 2011). "PANORÁMICA DEL CÓMIC ESLOVENO" [A Panorame of Slovene Comic Strip]. Tebeosfera (in Spanish) (8). ISSN 1579-2811.

External links

• "Bu-ci-bujevo rojstvo" in Naš glas, p. 289