Tender Beast is an artist book by Oleg Babich, based on an original handmade graphic series and presented as a message from an imaginary prehistoric artist to modern-day Homo sapiens.

It is an epic story describing the rise and fall of a fictitious human-like species — both so different from and so similar to us — in an attempt to rediscover the innocence once inherent in human nature. Playfully and humorously, the story juggles the fundamental concepts of life and death, evolution, survival, connection to nature, higher powers, and the meaning of existence.

The Tender Beast universe has also expanded into sculptural installations, charcoal murals, and oil-painted wooden cutouts, including solo exhibitions and permanent display in cultural institutions. Tender Beast is continuously presented at international art book fairs.

68 pages. Softcover edition. Signed copies available.

Magical Ape is an artist book based on an original handmade graphic series by Oleg Babich.

With a touch of irony, it follows a monkey’s strange transformation into something “greater,” questioning evolution, progress, and what might have been lost along the way.

The book combines drawing and storytelling into a single narrative flow and is part of the Tender Beast universe — a long-term project exploring the fictional “childhood of mankind.”

20 pages. Softcover with visible thread binding. Signed copies available.