Thank you very much for your affection and encouragement. We wish you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2007.
Brand new illustrations
[ 2006-12-16 ] After welcoming Two Dozen Pilsner Fairy Tales and Legends you can see eight illustrations from this book on Vhrsti´s web pages. Further, there are twelve brand new illustrations prepare for My First Newspaper in the gallery. Some of them haven´t been published yet and waiting for the new year. Of a Brave Little Car is the picture made for the text by Czech writer Jiri Zacek. As a bonus we tagge new comics Snail.
Book´s Welcoming
[ 2006-12-05 ] Two Dozen Pilsner Fairy Tales and Legends was published in Pilsen and that´s why their authors have prepared some interesting meetings for you. On Monday, 11 December 2006, there will be Book´s Welcoming in the Pilsen City Hall – as Fairy Godmother Jan Vycital. On Wednesday, 13 December 2006, after eleven o´clock, you can listen authors of these fairy tales, legends and pictures in the Czech Radio Pilsen and in 17.30 there will be christening by city mayor Pavel Rodl with music band Strasliva Podivana in the centre of Pilsen. On Thursday, 14 December 2006, you are welcome on Confirmation with Jiri Hlobil and music band Gutta to the Gallery „13“ in Prazska street in Pilsen.
Contemporary Czech Comics in Olomouc
[ 2006-11-30 ] The exhibition Contemporary Czech Comics is moving to Olomouc after stops in Liberec and Prague. From 8 to 21 December 2006 you can see it in attic of Art Centre of Palacky University. There is also piece Today Everything Is Crazy by Vhrsti (pictures), Hibi and Petja (screenplay). This exhibition is prepared as one part of animation presentation PAF. If you would like, you can also visit seminar How the Comics Is Borning and workshop Round the Corner. Everybody could try to comics speaking under the comics author´s management.
Two Dozen Pilsner Fairy Tales and Legends
[ 2006-11-20 ] Markéta Čekanová and Zdeněk Zajíček wrote the book of Pilsner fairy tales and legends. You can see there more than forty illustrations by Vhrsti. The book is available in Pilsner bookshops from this week. You can also contact the publisher RLA Stallion.
Autumn Special issue of Moje 1. noviny with Vhrsti
[ 2006-11-13 ] Autumn Special of children magazine Moje 1. noviny (My First Newspaper) comes again and is full of riddles, crosswords, mazes and jokes for small readers as usual. About one third of pictures is made by Vhrsti.
Vhrsti on Humorest
[ 2006-20-06 ] From the beginning of October 2006 to the 3rd December 2006 visitors of Museum in Hradec Králové (Czech Republic) can see the best works collection of the 6th International Biennial Cartoon Contest Humorest 2006. Vhrsti takes part in exhibition and also participates in catalogue.
The Milkman in newspaper Denik
[ 2006-10-06 ] Besides of daily comic strip Endless Bus Friday the readers of newspaper Denik can make the acquaintance of the other side of Vhrsti’s creation. His poetic comics The Milkman (2003) was published in special page comics extra. Magazine presents author in short profile and deal history and theory of comics strips.
Positive tsunami
[ 2006-09-21 ] From the beginning of this week there is comic magazine Zkrat on the counter in the good bookshops. You can read a lot of very interesting things on 40 pages. Editor is speaking about it in leading article: „Last four pages take form of positive tsunami by trio Vhrsti, Petja and Hibi. First of all Hibi makes dialogue with Vhrsti. It isn´t necessary to comment the subtitle of this interview – Finding Pleasure In Doing Everything. Probably I should mention that text fades into strip there. Comic funny story Today Everything Is Crazy is good point in the end.“ Vhrsti also prepared illustrations for new issue of Zkrat.
Comic strips by Vhrsti in Czech newspapers every day
[ 2006-09-18 ] From today you can read Endless Tram (or Endless Bus) by Vhrsti in 72 titles of daily Bohemia and Moravia including incoming Prague Daily (Prazský denik). Every day more than million readers from the Czech Republic can meet Vhrsti´s humour. New comic strip is also unique in world context: its´ story hasn´t any main protagonist, readers watch events by tram or bus windows.
Vhrsti in Poland from the end of September
[ 2006-09-11 ] Vhrsti is among 5 Czech authors of which works, sent to the cartoon competition Kožuchów 2006, will be show on the exhibition in the castle Kožuchów, Poland. This action will start in the 30th September and will present the best pieces of work (200 cartoons from 45 countries all over the world). More information on the info-website by Poland cartoonist and organizer of this competition Miroslaw Hajnos. Theme of the 3rd year was Protection – Against Heat or Cold.
Little News
[ 2006-08-16 ] Comics magazin Zkrat will coming soon. Among others there will be published the cartoon and also comics strip about Mr. Square and the Swing. Other news is sample from comics strip for international post company.
Photostories from comics actions in attendance of Vhrsti
[ 2006-08-02 ] Web page Komiks.cz runs a reportage from comics exhibition on the 4th Children´s Book Fair in Liberec and also photos from comics actions on BookWorld 2006 in Prague.
Absolutely new pieces on Vhrsti´s website
[ 2006-07-10 ] Vhrsti doesn´t laze during summer. In the Gallery – in the part Comics – you can see one episode of strip We were there from the supplement of newspaper Právo during film festival in Zlín, strip The Mausoleum to Hibi´s homonymous project and extract from eleven pages´parody The Adversity. In the part Illustration there were replaced old pieces by news, for example by comics crocodile for magazine Zkrat or design of original eye-catchers. In the part Cartoons there are most pieces of news (15).
Vhrsti is working on…
[ 2006-06-20 ] In these days Vhrsti is working on comics Adversity. He edits finishing touches of eleven pages. The story is little bit complicated. It comes from the world of legendary czech children’s comics Shamrock. It could be set out in anthology Shamrock Strikes Back this year. It takes up parody book Children Not Admit. Further Vhrsti works on cartoons for two most important international competition of cartoons holding in the Czech republic this year – Humorest in Hradec Králové and ForProFor in Prague.
Vhrsti in daily papers
[ 2006-06-06 ] May 24, article Canadians appreciated cartoon of pilsener author Vhrsti came out in pilsener newspaper MF Dnes. Today Vhrsti appeared in this paper again in column How does he spend his time.
The anthology Czekomiks will be christen at Crwecon
[ 2006-06-05 ] For the first time comics anthology Czekomiks was presented at BookWorld in Prague. June 10, it will be christen at comics meeting Crwecon in cinema Aero in Prague. Vhrsti as one of authors will participate in discussion about Czechs and comics. Than authors will autograph.
Vhrsti at the Film Fest in Zlin
[ 2006-05-26 ] City of Zlin will entertain the 46th International Film Festival for Children and Youth from May 28. Vhrsti’s comics strip will be published in festival newspapers every day. Visitors could see six brand new Vhrsti’s comics in total by screenplay of Michal Procházka and Karel Wolf.
More about award from Canada
[ 2006-05-19 ] After yestarday pleasure evening with Vhrsti’s fairy taile in the tea house Relax, we bring new information about award and especially appreciated pictures from the 6th International Editorial Cartoon Competition in Ottawa. The first price was taken to Chinese Run Tang Li, the second price won Dale Cummings from Canada, the third price was prepared for Muammer Olcay from Turkey. The exhibition of all awarded works has taken place in the center of National Press Club in Ottawa. If you would like to see it, please go to the Wellington Street :-)
Vhrsti awarded in Canada
[ 2006-05-18 ] Vhrsti was awarded by Certificate of Excellence in the International Editorial Cartoon Competition, Ottawa, Canada. The theme of this competition, organised by National Press Club of Canada, was cartooning in a dangerous environment, the pressure under which cartoonists perform their craft, self-censorship, political, economic and editorial constraints to artistic expression. The competition drew 365 entries from 47 countries.
Vhrsti invites you to reading by author
[ 2006-05-11 ] Vhrsti will read his fairy taile Of a Bald Kingdom on Thursday 18th May at 18 p.m. in tea house Relax in Pilsen. He will present also his project Healing pictures at this informal meeting. Also performing Katka Nova and Standa Jurik, admission 70,- Kc.
Vhrsti gives thanks for very nice meeting on the BookWorld
[ 2006-05-07 ] He gives thanks to editor in chief of komiks.cz Hibi, publisher of Zkrat magazine and other comics projects Martin Pribyl, journalist Martin Foret, world’s legend of cartoon Jiri Sliva and other interesting people.
He is thirty, he is named himself Vhrsti
[ 2006-04-29 ] … and he draws funny pictures, comics and cartoons. This sentence is the first of the article about Vhrsti by Pilsener poet and journalist Markéta Čekanová in yeasterday MF Dnes. Vhrsti has disclosed there secret of his pseudonym, they have been speaking about Vhrsti´s childhood, olympic comics (Torino, 2006), Adolf Born etc.
Vhrsti at Bookworld Prague
[ 2006-04-28 ] 12th International Book Fair Bookworld Prague 2006 on the fairground in Prague – Holešovice, will introduce also some comics programs. Exhibition Czech Comics promises varied presentation of comics produce. Magazine Zkrat will represent there Vhrsti´s and Hibi´s postmodern opus on the theme Alice in Wonderland. The second thematic exhibition The Czechs and Comics will introduce the best pieces of work from the new comics anthology Czekomiks. In this anthology you can see Vhrsti´s A Comics about Comics too. For the comics funs there are prepared a lot of discussions and signing of books by their authors. Vhrsti will be in audience personally. For that matter on the official leaflet of Czech Comics on the Bookworld Prague there will be also Vhrsti´s comics strip Endless Tram.
An April Update
[ 2006-04-01 ] Vhrsti started again to draw for My First Newspaper after a gap because of he was busy. We have exchanged 10 older black and white illustrations for brand new pictures. Besides that you can see another tribute to poet Jiri Zacek and CD-cover to 130th anniversary of The Library of the City of Plzen. New Vhrsti’s wall clocks are interesting too. See also 3 new black and white comics for People in Need foundation. You can find brand new picture in the gallery, author made it for a natural person.
Vhrsti at Children’s Book Fair in Liberec
[ 2006-03-13 ] From today to March 18 you can visit the 4th Children´s Book Fair in Liberec. Its part is also the comics exhibition in the pavilon E. The exhibition documents development of comics for children in the Czech Republic. They want to introduce names waiting for entry to the history too. Vhrsti presents comics The Milkman, The Fisherman and 4 parts of Stories of Rudolf II. After ending Children´s Book Fair the exhibition will be move to the Country Science Library in Liberec where it will be installed in to April 20.
Big interview with Vhrsti
[ 2006-03-13 ] Big interview with Vhrsti was published on Pilsener Cultural Portal. Vhrsti thought back to his childhood, art and prosaic rudiments, voiced his attitude to present Czech comics, his teamwork with comics journalist Hibi, furthermore he spoke about antology Warburger, comics saloon in Beograd, Olympic comics The Fisherman etc. Writer Ivo Fencl asked those questions and more – in Czech only.
New section for gourmets
[ 2006-03-08 ] In Vhrsti´s gallery you can see brand new section Sketches. Art gourmets can find there scope of pencil, ink and colored drawings whitch draftsman makes especially for himself; to take down his ideas, for organizing his themes, to try new forms or compositions. You can look „into the Vhrsti’s kitchen“ and see little drawings, whitch you can’t see anywhere else.
Another bonus to Prazska Palena
[ 2006-03-02 ] Your favourable responses of CD cover Prazska Palena surpassed our expectations. Thank you for all your compliments and suggestions. You can download another bonus from Vhrsti – CD print of Prazska Palena. Besides that the inaccurate time of last track on back cover was corrected.
Interview with Vhrsti on Neraweb
[ 2006-02-27 ] Czech cultural web page Neraweb brings interview with Vhrsti headed No Entry for Children – No Bleeding. There is talk about Olympic comics for Q International, what Vhrsti working on at this time and other interests of his work (in Czech only).
Vhrsti in National Museum
[ 2006-02-15 ] You can see other part of expositional project Golden Age of Media in main building of National Museum in Prague – exhibition hall Hollarea. There is among others pictures of contemporary Czech cartoonists also Vhrsti’s Blanket.
Vhrsti won with Jaromir Nohavica’s funs
[ 2006-02-14 ] Thanks! You chose Vhrsti´s booklet of Prazska palena as the best. In the competition there were 113 booklets and 4 563 visitors which voted. Vhrsti´s design obtained 1 081 votes. You can download the booklet in actual version and in full resolution here.
Little update of our web pages
[ 2006-02-09 ] Vote of the best CD cover runs at Jaromir Nohavica’s web pages. Nohavica is one of the famous European singer-songwriter and he recorded a new album free on the web. You can download Vhrsti’s cover #10 nowadays only at our pages. Besides that we have one new cartoon in the gallery.
Vhrsti spoke today morning…
[ 2006-01-30 ] …with editor Kveta Bodollova in live radio show on Czech Radio Pilsen about olympic comics, comics in the Czech Republic and in the world, his daddy, healing pictures, The Czech Cartoonists‘ Union and many further topics. Tommorrow listeners will enjoy a competition for Vhrsti’s picture Evening’s Ease.
Vhrsti on the Czech Radio
[ 2006-01-26 ] Newspaper MF DNES brought news about Vhrsti’s comics in Q International magazine. Vhrsti will be guest of live radio show Morning Cocktail on Czech Radio on Monday 30th January from 11:15.
Vhrsti at the Olympics
[ 2006-01-25 ] Vhrsti’s comics The Fisherman was published in special issue Q International dedicated to XX Olympic Winter Games TORINO 2006. Q International is the first wordless comics review in the world following the new trends in comics.
Vhrsti won a literary prize
[ 2006-01-22 ] Vhrsti’s fairy tales were awarded by honourable mention at traditional presentation ceremony of literary magazine Plz. The story Of a Pole-Jumping Princess and extract from Of a Bald Kingdom is in Downloads – For Editors (in Czech only). You can see also three illustrations from the second story in the gallery.
Vhrsti´s official web site is currently in full English version
[ 2006-01-18 ] You can see there scope of pictures, samples of comics, illustrations and cartoons, screensavers and wallpapers of considerable variety. Healing pictures is Vhrsti´s new project that started at the end of 2005, you can find it in the gallery. You will find a constant flow of fresh information here, not only regarding this web site.