Jules or "Julio" Radilovic, who uses
the pseudonym Jules, began his career in
1952, making the comic 'Neznanac' for
Horizontov Zabavnik. A couple of years
later, he began working for the German
market, where he teamed up with writer
Zvonimir Furtiner to make a series about
inventions and discoveries ('Izumi i
Otkrica') for Kunterbunt, a publication
by Rolf Kauka. They also began the
historical comic 'Through the Past
Centuries', that ran in the Yugoslavian
magazine Plavi Vjesnik until 1959.
In the early 1960s, Jules illustrated
four episodes of 'Captain Leshi', a
series based on a Yugoslavian movie about
an Albanian war hero. In 1962, he adapted
the Edgar Wallace novel 'Sanders of
Africa' to comics, again in cooperation
with Furtinger. The Radilovic-Furtinger
tandem also started the detective parody
'Herlock Sholmes', that ran successfully
in among others Plavi Vjaesnik until
1972. Radilovic joined the Strip Features
Syndicate and began series like 'Baca
Izvidjac', 'Africke Pustolovine' and
'Jaimee McPheeters', published in
magazines like Plavi Vjesnik and Studio
(scripts by Furtinger or Norbert
Neugebauer). During this period, he also
illustrated a great number of book covers
and did advertising assignments. Ten
books of Tarzan are his the most popular
work on illustrating books.
In 1977, he started the World War II
series 'De Partizanen' with scripts by
Dordge Lebovic for the Dutch magazine
Eppo. Although Radilovic and Lebovic
never met in person, they continued the
strip until 1989. Radilovic was the
president of the union of Yugoslav comics
artists and was awarded for his
achievements in the field with the
Danica, the highest Croatian decoration.
Jules lives in Zagreb, Croatia.