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While we are busy researching how to reach new and exceptional comic authors, visual narration and illustration, people, cities, buildings, and probably a lot of art pieces, comics, books all over the planet are disappearing. They emerge and they disappear. It is difficult to halt these processes, but it is certainly worth committing to strive

for creation, with the entirety of one’s being and available means. We believe that empty space deserves a better and a more humane content in which we ourselves need to partake.

Following the trail of underrepresented and less known female com-ic book authors, we had set off for WOMCOM to familiarize ourselves with the existing scene, and afterwards tried discovering new female authors, to make them as visible as possible and, potentially acquire new collaborators in the future. The mention of female comic book au-thors in available, renowned books of comic history and essays is really rare, so “Women — comic book authors” by Slobodan Ivkov (“Likovni susreti,” Subotica, 1995) in the catalogue “60 years of national comics in Serbia 1935-1995,” can be considered a starting point. The same author later published several more texts about female comic book authors, their publications, exhibitions, etc. Female comic authors are present and active, they publish, and exhibit, but it was our impression that they are not present enough on our comic scene. Upon numerous editions, published both by the Students’ Cultural Center Novi Sad and other publishers, the female authors are present at collective and indi-vidual exhibitions, workshops, comic actions, etc.