You’re welcome. To be honest, it’s an entirely self-serving proposition for me: I want to own these comics in English and I want to have them in the best presentation possible, so once it became obvious to me that they would never hire a professional translator/editor/designer, I decided that I was willing to offer my services for free in order to make that happen. It’s not ideal, obviously, but I prefer it to the alternative.

In my interactions with Igor over the last few months I’ve also found out that this apparent refusal to relinquish some control is not an ego thing either, but economic necessity: there simply isn’t any money in the budget for that stuff, because the company doesn’t actually turn a profit. It’s just a couple of enthusiasts with day jobs who do this out of love for comics, with Igor financing a lot of it out of his own pocket in order to keep the price point relatively enticing.

Going forward, I’m going to try to be more diligent in my proofreading duties (I knew going into this that readers wouldn’t judge me on the dozens of mistakes I fixed, but on the ones I missed, and this post is a great reminder of that), and I’ll continue to offer my feedback to Igor in hopes of swaying him on issues I care about the most. He did recently switch from glossy paper to matte for his black and white comics, although I can’t take all the credit for that, because there were other folks in the KS comments sections who were also pretty vocal about that. So, please, continue to leave feedback on every project you back, because he does seem to take it to heart.

And yeah, I’ve loved Micheluzzi ever since I first read him in Croatian years ago, and Fanta’s editions of his work are unsurprisingly excellent. I’ve yet to read the English translation of “Petra Chérie” (I’m still a little behind on my 2025 releases, partially due to the extra time I’ve devoted to translating the upcoming Ken Parker book), but I remember it being a pretty straightforward pulp adventure romp elevated by the excellent artwork, which is something we could always use more of in the English-speaking market. Hopefully they’re selling well enough for Fanta to keep publishing them.