Milan Trenc

Milan Trenc is a Croatian, comic artist, illustrator and film director. He studied at the Zagreb Academy of Dramatic Arts. He started publishing comics during his studies, and upon graduation got a job at Zagreb Film. Early in his career he formed the comic artist group Novi Kvadrat with fellow artists like Radovan Devlic, Igor Kordej and Mirko Ilic. Between 1985 and 1991 he was chief illustrator of Start magazine. He was responsible for films like 'Ghost Story' and 'The Big Time'.

In the early 1990s he moved to New York City, where he contributed comics to Heavy Metal Magazine, and illustrations to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker and Fortune. He is the author of the children's book 'The Night at the Museum' (1993), which was adapted into a feature film in 2006. He is the author of the comic series 'Peter Mayne & Nord Zucker'. Trenc is a teacher in directing and animation at the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts since 2004.