Igor Hofbauer was born in 1974 in Novi Zagreb (Croatia), where he still lives and works. He attended the local Academy of Fine Arts for three years. He illustrated several books by the Croatian novelist Edo Popovic, and has contributed illustrations and comic strips to international magazines and anthologies. In 2007, he published his first collection of graphic novellas, Prison Stories for Otompotm Editions in Zagreb. This was followed by Firma, a volume of sketches for Turbo Comix (2010), and Grumizna Laguna(2015), which was published in installments in the Croatian weekly Globus before being issued in book form by URK/Mocvara in 2019. Grimizna Laguna is now Available as in Italian and as Crimson Quays in English, both published by Tabularasa Edizioni in collaboration with Bisso Edizioni and Teke Gallery.

Jonathan Bousfield is an English writer living in Zagreb, Croatia. He has written extensively on travel, culture and the history of Central and Eastern Europe, and is the author of guidebooks to Croatia, Poland, Bulgaria, Slovenia and the Baltic States

Igor Hofbauer's stories niggle at the dark recesses of the psyche. They are visits implying there's much more to face, panels awaiting uncovering, but we don't want these scenes of extended hideous horror to be so easily explained or, for that matter, to come much closer.

--The Comics Journal

Igor Hofbauer is the Charles Burns of the Balkans.

--Nina Bunjevac