Irena Jukić Pranjić (1973) is a professional in comics, animated film, illustration and teaching. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, and has received numerous awards for her artistic work, namely in field of animated films. Her films include The Soul Ornament (2011), Lust (2014), Gamer Girl (2016) and Real Boy (2021). She is active in promoting comics - she edited an anthology Balkan Women in Comics (2010); edited and directed 50 episodes of documentary television series Comics in Croatia (HRT3 2014/17) and numerous essays on comics that she teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb as well. An author of comic books Dnevnik snivanja i filozofiranja (2021), Emisija emocija (2015) and four collections of short comics Protuotrov (1997-2003).