Strip Art Features (SAF) is a comic-book publishing house and rights agent currently based in Celje, Slovenia. The company is known to the American public through its co-publishing arrangement with Dark Horse Comics.
History
SAF was founded by 17-year-old Ervin Rustemagić in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1971. The rights agency component of SAF, known as Platinum Studios, developed a large, internationally oriented library of non-superhero properties. From its inception, the company focused on representing a broad range of genres and maintaining relationships with prominent European creators and publishers.[1]
SAF's magazine Strip Art was the winner of the 1984 Lucca Comics & Games Yellow Kid Award for Best Foreign Comics Publisher.[2]
In the early 1990s, SAF had offices in the Sarajevo suburb of Ilidža as well as in Doetinchem, the Netherlands.[3]