Little Negro Bu-ci-bu

Little Negro Bu-ci-bu, also mentioned as Buci-Bu, was the first Slovene comic strip. It was created by Milko Bambič and published in 1927 in the children's column of the monthly Naš glas in Trieste. It is a story about an arrogant and tyrannical black king that with his false wisdom leads his people to ruin and commits suicide. It caused a controversy, because it was seen as a parody on the Italian leader Mussolini, and the author predicted his demise. The Italian Fascist authorities forbade Bambič's works. He escaped from Trieste to Yugoslavia to avoid arrest.