'Batman: Full Moon' #1 (2024).
Stevan Subić is a Serbian comic artist, graphic designer and illustrator. After having his own radio show in his hometown of Zrenjanin and participating in comic festivals in Eastern Europe, Subić has been a comic artist for publishing houses in Europe and in the United States. Since 2012, he has worked on several series for the Italian publisher Sergio Bonelli Editore ('Adam Wilde', 'Le Storie', 'Senzanima'), as well as the French publishers Delcourt ('L'Homme de l'Année', 'M.O.R.I.A.R.T.Y.'), Soleil ('Tarzan') and Glénat ('Conan Le Cimmérien', A.K.A. 'Conan the Barbarian'). In the United States, he has notably drawn 'Batman' mini-series like 'The Riddler: Year One' (2022-2023) and 'Batman: Full Moon' (2024-2025).
Adam Wilde #23 - 'Colenso' (2016).
Early life and career
Stevan Subić was born in 1982 in the city of Zrenjanin in northern Serbia (then still Yugoslavia), where he still lives and works. Although he had enjoyed drawing comics as a child, he first explored other media in his early professional life. Working in print and electronic media, Subić was active as a scriptwriter, actor and editor. Between 2002 and 2008, he was the creator and editor of an experimental radio sketch show for youngsters, Radio Muholovkashow, broadcast on, subsequently, Radio Zrenjanin, Radio Kojota and Fedra. Unaware of his childhood background in comics, several people noticed the show's comic-style storytelling, and one listener even called it "the most comic-like radio format he had ever heard".
In addition to his radio show, Subić has been associated with several youth-related associations in and outside of his hometown. He has organized workshops, concerts and forums, given lectures and masterclasses (for instance at the Novi Sad Academy of Arts), and initiated humanitarian projects for young people. One of his initiatives was the fanzine Žuta Cigla ("Yellow Brick"), which in the early 2000s had a notable following in Zrenjanin.
'Conflitti' ("Conflicts", 2011).
Early comics
In 2009, Subić changed course and began working as a professional artist. As an illustrator and graphic designer, he has created magazine covers, promotional artwork and theater posters. In the meantime, he also tried his luck as a comic creator. Self-taught, he had no mentors, but developed close bonds with several colleagues from the comic industry. In September 2009, he won an award with a four-panel comic strip at a comics salon organized by the Student Cultural Center in Belgrade. Between 2009 and 2012, he submitted short comic stories to comic festivals in Serbia, Croatia and North Macedonia, several of which won awards. In 2011, Subić won first prize at the international competition 'Conflicts War Balloons', organized by the city of Genoa in Italy, with Sergio Toppi as head of the jury. Subić's winning comic 'Conflitti', as well as its sequel 'Tracce', have been printed many times in Serbia and abroad. His comic stories have been published in the Italian online comic magazines Verticalismi and Rusty Dogs.
Le Storie #65 - 'Il Terzo Giorno' (2018).
Italian comics
After publishing his first stories in Serbian publications, Subić's talent was picked up by international publishers. Several of his international collaborations have later been translated for the Serbian market as well. In 2012, he received a work offer from the Italian publishing company Sergio Bonelli Editore. Together with scriptwriter and series creator Giancarlo Manfredi, he made two issues of the comic book series starring the Scottish explorer 'Adam Wilde': 'Il Signore delle Iene' (#8, 2015) and 'Colenso' (#23, 2016). At Bonelli, he also drew the mystery story 'Il Terzo Giorno' ("The Third Day", 2018), issue #65 of the monthly anthology series 'Le Storie', written by Isaak Friedl and Marco Nucci. Later on, he returned to Bonelli to draw issue #9 of 'Senzanima', a fantasy spin-off series of 'Dragonero', written by Luca Barbieri.
'M.O.R.I.A.R.T.Y' - Empire Mécanique' (2018).
French comics
Stevan Subić's work for Bonelli in Italy was also noticed by publishers in France, starting with Delcourt. In 2015, he debuted on the French market with '1666 - L'Homme à l'Origine du Grand Incendie de Londres' ("1666 - The Man Who Started the Great Fire of London"), written by Fred Duval and Nicolas Moustey as the tenth installment of the historical series 'L'Homme de l'Année'. Still for Delcourt, Subić drew the first the diptych 'Empire Mécanique', the first two volumes of 'M.O.R.I.A.R.T.Y.' (2018-2019), a steampunk take on the Sherlock Holmes universe, written by Fred Duval and Jean-Pierre Pécau. The next two-volume story cycle was drawn by Gess.
After that, Subić was hired by Éditions Soleil to draw the first volume of a new graphic novel adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' 'Tarzan', written by Christophe Bec. The second volume was drawn by Robert De La Torre and Stefano Raffaele. Subsequently, Subić was contacted by the famous comic book author Jean-David Morvan with the request of coming to work for the French publishing house Glénat. Again from a script by Christophe Bec, Subić drew volume #13 of Glénat's original 'Conan the Barbarian' comic series: 'Conan Le Cimmérien: Xuthal la Crépusculaire' ("Conan of Cimmeria: Xutal, City of Twilight", 2022).
'Tarzan, Seigneur de la Jungle' (2021).
American work
Since the early 2020s, Subić has been working for the American market. His first U.S. excursion was working on the 'Diablo' series of the Californian video game developer Blizzard Entertainment. He has then joined DC Comics as an artist for several Batman-related mini-series. With writer/actor Paul Dano, he created the six-issue series 'The Riddler: Year One' (2022-2023), which appeared as the official prequel to the 2022 film 'The Batman', directed by Matt Reeves. With Rodney Barnes as writer, Subić then launched 'Batman: Full Moon' (2024-2025), a horror mini-series in which Batman fights the werewolf of Gotham City.
Graphic contributions
For the French market, Stevan Subić has also contributed to several collective projects. His art appeared in the anthology 'L'Ombre d'Antan: Récits de la Grande Guerre' (Inukshuk, 2018), collecting stories from World War I. He was also one of the artists drawing a segment of 'Invasion Finale', the collective 24th and final installment of Christophe Bec's fantasy series 'Prométhée' (Soleil, 2023). In 2025, he was one of several international artists contributing to the anthology magazine 'Métal Hurlant - 50 Ans et Déjà Immortel' (2025) of Les Humanoïdes Associés, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the influential sci-fi comic magazine Métal Hurlant (Heavy Metal).
'The Riddler: Year One' #1 (2022).
Recognition
As one of the new talents emerging from Serbian comics culture, Stevan Subić has won awards at conventions in North Macedonia, Italy, Serbia and Croatia. His work was included in the 2013 exhibition 'Three Generations of Contemporary Serbian Comics' at the French Institute in Belgrade. In that same year, his work was also featured in the 'Balkan Comic Connections', a kind of encyclopedia of Balkan comics. Over the years, Subić has participated in several group exhibitions, and was also the subject of a few solo exhibitions.
In hometown in 2021, he was named the "Zrenjanin Person of the Year" in the field of culture by the readers of the local newspaper Zrenjanin, while in that same year, the newspaper Danas included him on a list of twenty influential personalities from the field of culture in Zrenjanin.
Stevan Subić in 2024.