HISTORY
Adrian Barbu is a book illustrator and comics author living and working in Cluj Napoca. His main activity domains are children books, educational books, and historical, science fiction and fantasy comics; his artwork is being published as well in Romania as in the US, Canada, Australia, Germany, Serbia.
ROMANIAN DESIGN WEEK APPEARANCES
2015 // Czech-Romanian relations in comics-Wings of Steel
Adrian Barbu is a book illustrator and comics author living and working in Cluj Napoca. His main activity domains are children books, educational books, and historical, science fiction and fantasy comics; his artwork is being published as well in Romania as in the US, Canada, Australia, Germany, Serbia.
ROMANIAN DESIGN WEEK APPEARANCES
2015 // Czech-Romanian relations in comics-Wings of Steel
Wings of Steel is a historical graphic novel based on the true life story of Josef Balejka, a Czech aircraft pilot during WW2. His assignments brought him across Romania in 1939 in a series of high-speed, dangerous and funny adventures. The visual accuracy of the graphic novel is documented with biographical facts, photographs and historical records, including
Balejka’s war diary. Design and cover art of the book by Sorina Vasilescu.
