Item seed: Paukmama.

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Paukmama

 

The 1987 graphic novel Paukmama (ostensibly published by Yugoslavian giant comics publishing house Dečje novine) was on sale for all of two days before Yugoslavia’s officially-long-since-disbanded Department for People’s Protection (OZNA) had it quietly removed from the shops.  OZNA also went looking for the author, to no avail; it turns out that the entire print run was somehow done without the publisher’s sanction, or even knowledge. However, copies circulated in various semi-underground forums until the final dissolution of Yugoslavia: a sufficiently determined search can today find blurry scans of the novel online.

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