Mima Simić, occult Croatian writer known for her obscure expressions, was born in hospital in 1976. Writes fiction and reviews in all the respectable Croatian literary and other similar publications, or in some anthologies - Quorum, Libra, Godine, Zarez, Plima, Akt, Vijenac, K, Ekran priče, Libido.hr, Poqueerene priče, Polish Studium, but not in The New Yorker, Harpers, The Atlantic Monthly, Harvard Review, London Magazine, Grant, etc. Translates from all the known languages but she does it best from English. Singer and co-founder of the family soc-religious band Drvena Marija, as well as one of the initiators of some less known activist groups LGBT and anarcho-feministic orientated ones. Besides, takes care of cats, repairs bikes and umbrellas. Covered Spain walking for 26 days and visited the place where Bruce Lee was buried in Seattle. In her free time studies in Budapest and Zagreb. Lives for her sons Druškan and Šejmi.
Ivana Armanini was born in 1970 in Zagreb, where finished the School of Applied Arts. Graduated painting from the Academy of Visual Arts, Zagreb. Rides a bike. Presented her works at three one-man exhibitions and around 100 collective exhibitions. Gave an idea for launching the K@MIKAZE project in 2002 and has been a co-ordinator since then. The leading idea of the project is to establish a regional network of authorial comics, including also publishing and e-publishing, comics workshops and MM promo-events.
Pustolovine Glorije Scott , cult stories by Mima Simić describe the adventures of a famous detective from London - Gloria Scott - and her cosufferer Mary Lambert. In these stories Mima Simić plays with the Victorian morality and the detective story as a genre. Her female Scherlock Holmes relies on the techniques of solving entanglements that are clear only to her (guess so), resulting in fresh humour, absurdity and parody, anti-rationalism in general. Let's hope that the future generations will have more reading experience to be able to break through the secret of language, Gloria Scott's biggest secret.
Ivana Armanini has turned Pustolovine Glorije Scott into comics, included in the second part of the book, equally important as the first one. In her stories, the visual identity becomes independent, while the narration serves as a temporary support for new graphical tomfooleries.



