Darko Macan (born 1966) is a Croatian author and illustrator who has created and collaborated on comics, essays and science fiction and fantasy. He is also an editor.
Born in Zagreb, where he still lives, he has a degree in history and archeology from the University of Zagreb.
He has drawn and written many comic books, mostly in Croatian, but in 1993 he broke into the American comics industry when he and fellow Croatian artist Edvin Biukovi? submitted their work to Dark Horse Comics. He has also done Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse for Disney comics. He was nominated for the Eisner Award twice (Grendel Tales: Devils and Deaths and Prayer to Sun).
As a writer, he has sold more than forty science fiction and fantasy short stories, two science fiction novels and three children's books. He has won four SFERA Awards and two Grigor Vitez Awards.
Under the pseudonym Cecile Quintal he has written essays about comics.
He was editor of nine Annual Collections of Croatian SF. He is editor-in-chief of the "Q strip" comics magazine.
Ona koju vole bogovi, novel (with Tatjana Jambri?ak, Goran Konvi?ni, Damir Stare?ini? and Berislav Lopac) (included in annual collection Zagreb 2014 by SFera, 1998)
Ko?a boje masline, novel (included in annual collection Dvije tisu?e ?arenih aliena by SFera, 2000), SFERA Award
Teksas Kid (i jo? neka moja bra?a), short story collection, includes Ko?a boje masline (Mentor, 2003)
42 (pro?itaj i daj dalje), short stories (Mentor, 2009)
Books about science fiction
Macan ?ita! (obdukcija SF-?anra u Hrvata) (Mentor, 2007)
Books for children
Knjige la?u! (Znanje, 1997), Grigor Vitez Award
Pavo protiv Pave (Mozaik kniga, 2002)
?uta minuta: rock'n'roll bajka (Autorska ku?a, 2005), Grigor Vitez Award
Dlakovuk (Knjiga u centru and Autorska ku?a, 2007)
Jadnorog (Knjiga u centru, 2008)
Comics
Citati (with Edvin Biukovi?, Stripagent, 1993, 2000)
Strossmayer (with Radovan Devli? and Du?an Ga?i?, Glas koncila, 1993)
Grendel Tales: Devils and Deaths (with Edvin Biukovi?, Dark Horse Comics, 1996)
X-Wing: The Phantom Affair (with Michael Stackpole and Edvin Biukovi?, Dark Horse Comics, 1997)
Borovnica (?kolska knjiga, 1998)
Tarzan: Carson of Venus (with Igor Kordej, Dark Horse Comics, 1999)
Hellblazer #144-145 (with Gary Erskine, Vertigo, 2000)
Star Wars: Vader's Quest (with Dave Gibbons, Dark Horse Comics, 2000)
Weird War Tales (with Edvin Biukovi?, "A Prayer to the Sun", Vertigo, 2000)
Star Wars Tales 3: Lady Luck (with Rich Handley, Dark Horse Comics, 2001)
Star Wars: Chewbacca (with a group of other artists, Dark Horse Comics, 2001)
Komarac: Prop'o plan (with ?tef Bartoli?; Profil, 2001)
Jedi vs Sith (with Ramon Bachs, Dark Horse Comics, 2002)
La Bette Noire #1-5 (with Milan Jovanovi?, Drugi pogled, 2001 and 2002)
Mister Ma?ak (with Robert Solanovi? and Tihomir Tikulin; Bookglobe, 2002)
Cable: The End (with Igor Kordej, David Tischmann and Mike Huddlestone, Marvel Comics, 2002)
Soldier X #1-8 (with Igor Kordej, Marvel Comics, 2002)
Mr. Meow (with Robert Solanovi?) in Furrlough issue #113, Radio Comix, 2002
Mister Ma?ak protiv zvjezdanog roja (with Robert Solanovi?; Bookglobe, 2005)
Borovnica - - - protiv Paje Pauka! (Mentor, 2005)
Borovnica - - - predvodi ?opor! (Mentor, 2007)
Borovnica: pasice (Mentor, 2007)
Pirati - cio svijet na internet! (Autorska ku?a, 2007)
Kolumbo (Mentor, 2007)
Martina Mjesec (with Goran Sud?uka; Mentor, 2007)
Svebor i Plamena (with Goran Sud?uka; Fibra, 2007)
Mali Guj i njegov Zmuj (with Frano Petru?a; Mentor, 2007)
