The article deals with the contribution of Russian artists-emigrants at Kingdom of Yugoslavia in the 1930s to the formation of the new genre – comics, or, in Serbian “strip” (comics strip). The participition of Yuri Lobachev, Nikolay Navoev, Sergei Soloviev, Konstantin Kuznetsov and the other artists in the development of the new genre is analyzed. The peculiarities of their creativity on the example of the adaptation in comics the texts of the different genres, including of the folk epic and fairy tales are revealed.