Jerzy Wróblewski
, 1941 - 1991
Jerzy Wróblewski was born on August 7, 1941 in Inowrocław; he died on August 10, 1991 in Bydgoszcz. He was an extremely versatile cartoonist and graphic novelist (stories of the Wild West, crime, espionage, history, science fiction, war, Bible - Polscy Podróżnicy [Polish Travelers] (1988), Legendy Wyspy Labiryntu [The Legends of Maze Island]) (1989) and others). He used realistic as well as grotesque styles of drawing. His work depended heavily on the political and economic situation in the country and changing cultural policy. Comic books were subject to censorship. Party policymakers barely tolerated comics, for the elites they represented considered them an ideologically suspect phenomenon of mass culture. It was a frequent phenomenon in the work of illustrators and book authors.
Sources:
Jasiński, Maciej, Jerzy Wróblewski okiem współczesnych artystów komiksowych [Jerzy Wróblewski through the Eyes of Contemporary Comic Books Artists], Szczecin: Ongrys, 2016.
Jaworski, Marcin, Urodzony, żeby rysować: twórczość komiksowa Jerzego Wróblewskiego [Born to Draw: Jerzy Wróblewski’s Comic Books], Toruń: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika, 2015 (MA dissertation at the Nicholas Copernicus University in Toruń).
Niewiadowski, Andrzej and Anton Smuszkiewicz, Leksykon polskiej literatury fantastycznonaukowej.Poznań: Wydawnictwo Poznańskie, 1990, 211–212.
Bio prepared by Viktoryia Bartsevich, University of Warsaw, v.bartsevich@student.uw.edu.pl
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