Milko Bambič

Milko Bambič (26 April 1905 – 20 May 1991) also known by the nicknames Cvetanov and Banetov, was a prolific illustrator, cartoonist, caricaturist, inventor, children's writer, publicist, and painter from the Slovene minority in Italy (1920-1947). He is regarded as one of the most versatile Slovene artists and a prominent Italian Futurist painter. He published in both Italian and Slovene. He is known for the first Slovene comic strip Little Negro Bu-ci-bu, an allegory of Mussolini's career, and as the creator of the Three Hearts (Tri srca) brand, still used today by Radenska.

Bambič was born in Trieste, where he attended the elementary Cyril and Methodius School with Slovene language as language of instruction, located in Sveti Ivan, Trieste. Then, he was a pupil at the one-year German preparatory school and in the first class of the German technical high school in Trieste. In 1919, he attended the brothers Rendićs's private school, and then the Idrija Technical High School, where he got acquainted with modern art movements by the Lojze Spazzapan, a Slovene-Italian modernist painter, who at the time served in Idrija as a math and drawing teacher. Babič became the leading illustrator of Slovene press in Trieste. He was prevented by the fascists to enter the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice in late 1920s. In 1927, he participated in an underground exhibition of Slovene Trieste artists, forbidden by the Italian Fascist government.

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