Zoran Janjetov is a Serbia

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n comics artist

Artist

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. He lives in Novi Sad

Novi Sad

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. Janjetov is best known as the illustrator

Illustrator

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 of The Technopriests, written by Alejandro Jodorowsky

Alejandro Jodorowsky

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. In 1986 he was chosen by Moebius

Jean Giraud

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 to continue his work The Incal

The Incal

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Biography

At very early age he started to draw with a strong support of his parents. His father, architect

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 by profession, gave him starting knowledge needed for his successful artistic career. Young Zoran

Zoran

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 influenced by works of Walt Disney

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, already made his first short comic at age seven.

After finished formal schooling, he continued, mostly because of his parents will, to educate at Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, where he also graduated. There he met again his childhood friend Mitar Subotić Suba

Suba (musician)

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 alias Rex Ilusivii, who was then already known musician

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 and producer

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. Together they explored visual-art and music

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. Janjetov was in the early 1980s lead singer and composer

Composer

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 of several songs in the LP

Gramophone record

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 of his band

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 Heroina

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 and also singer on some other LP tracks of his musician friends. His music was influenced by bands and musicians such as: Sparks

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, Visage

Visage

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, Bauhaus

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, Associates, Laurie Anderson

Laurie Anderson

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, Peter Gabriel

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, ...etc. In these years he performed as singer and performer in many concert

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s and TV

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 shows. He directed several awarded music video

Music video

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s and designed numerous award winning LP covers of different music bands and performers. His strong music, movie

Film

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 and sci-fi

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 involvement is present in his early comic, today already cult, Bernard Panasonic.