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Rumen Petkov (artist)
Rumen Petkov (; 26 January 1948 – 11 June 2018) was a Bulgarian animator, painter and comic creator. He is best remembered for his animated series ''Choko the Stork and Boko the Frog'', which he also adapted into a comic strip. His influence spawned a new generation of young Bulgarian comics artists, such as Vladimir Nedialkov, Koko Sarkisian, Ivan Kirjakov, Sten Damyanov, and others. Career Petkov was one of the main artists of the comics' magazine '' Duga'' ("''Rainbow''"), which was the most popular comics magazine for several generations of Bulgarian children. His series '' The Adventures of Choko the Stork and Boko the Frog'' was popular in Bulgaria, during the 1970s and 1980s. Other famous animated films he directed are ''Friends of Gosho the Elephant'', ''Treasure Planet'', etc. He won the Grand Prize at the Ottawa Animation Festival and the Palme d'Or for ''Best Short'' at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival. In the 1990s, Petkov worked as a writer, storyboard artist, animat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dnevnik (Bulgarian Newspaper)
''Dnevnik'' (, ''Journal'') is a business-oriented Bulgarian daily newspaper, that is published Monday - Friday in Sofia since 2001. Until early 2005, it was printed in broadsheet format, the last Bulgarian daily to use the large format. It adopted a compact format after research in 2005 found that more than 50% of the readers would prefer a smaller, thicker paper. Dnevnik's main editorial line is that the state should intervene less, and that business should have more freedom. Like the influential business and politics weekly ''Capital'', it is published by Sofia-based Economedia. German publishing group Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group was the owner of a 50 per cent stake in Economedia, but the Bulgarian owners of Economedia bought the shares back in November 2007. With a print-run of between 12,000 and 15,000, Dnevnik claimed 6,000 paid subscribers, distributed between 2,000 and 5,000 copies free-of-charge and sold about 5,000 copies at newsstands, the publisher's figure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |