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| birth_name  = Rajko Milošević-Gera
| birth_date  = {{Birth date and age|1959|11|24}}
| birth_place = [[Belgrade]], [[Yugoslavia]]
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| occupation  = Writer
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{{Blp sources|date=June 2023}}{{Short description|Serbian comic book author and illustrator}}
'''Rajko Milošević''' a.k.a. '''Gera''' and '''R. M. Guéra''' ({{lang-sr-cyr|Рајко Милошевић - Гера}}; November 24, 1959) is a [[Serbia]]n [[comic book]] author and illustrator. He has lived in [[Barcelona]], [[Spain]] since 1991.

He debuted in the [[Yugoslavia|Yugoslav]] comic book industry in [[1982 in comics|1982]] with the series ''Elmer Jones'' ({{lang-sr-cyr|italic=yes|Елмер Џонс}}), a [[Sergio Leone|Leonesque]] western scripted by Dragan Savić. They later collaborated on ''Texas Riders'' ({{lang-sr-cyr|italic=yes|Тексашки јахачи}}) in [[1984 in comics|1984]]. 

Gera's work has been published in [[Spain]], [[France]] and the [[United States]]. He worked on the [[Vertigo Comics]] series ''[[Scalped (comics)|Scalped]]'', with writer [[Jason Aaron]], as well as on ''Le Lievre de Mars'', with writer [[Patrick Cothias]] for French publisher [[Glénat (publisher)|Glénat]].

Géra is a childhood nickname, and not part of his given name. He changed it to Guéra in the early 1990s when he moved to [[Barcelona]], [[Spain]], to adapt it to Spanish pronunciation.<ref>Vertigo "On The Ledge" column, by R.M. Guéra, week of June 6th</ref>

==Gera’s Work in Former Yugoslavia==
Guerra created Wetsren comics. He began in former Yugoslavia with "Elmer Jones", first published in 1982 in ''YU strip''. Next comic was "Chuck Lorimer", also a Western, published in ''YU strip godinjak'' in 1983. But Guerra received true recognition as one of the best Western authors in Yugoslavia in 1985-1986 when he published “Texan Riders” in ''Spunk novosti'' and ''Stripoteka''. The comic was never finished. When Guerra was about to do the sequel in 2019, he received an offer from a European publisher to redraw the whole thing and publsih it anew.<ref>https://www.pressing-magazine.rs/v2/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Strip-Pressing-22.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=August 2024}}</ref>

==Gera’s Work After 1991==
After Milošević left former Yugoslavia in 1991, he changed his pseudonym from Gera to the more "Spanishized" Guéra. Initially, he collaborated with Spanish writer Oscar Aibar on several short stories. He then shifted his focus to commercial work, including advertisements, design, covers, and animation storyboards. Guéra collaborated with Patrick Cothias on 'Le Lièvre de Mars', a series previously drawn by Antonio Parras for Glénat in France. In 2004, he created his own comic, the pirate story 'Howard Blake', for Glénat.

For the US market, Guéra worked on the Vertigo series 'Scalped' with Jason Aaron starting in 2007-2012. He also created the comic book adaptation of Quentin Tarantino's film 'Django Unchained' with Jason Latour as a DC Comics mini-series in 2012 and 2013.

In 2019, Guerra did an episode of Tex Willer titled "The Man with Golden Pistols" for the Italian publisher Bonelli comics.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://en.sergiobonelli.it/tex/2020/04/15/book/tex-l-uomo-dalle-pistole-d-oro-1008089/?refresh_ce | title=Tex. l'Uomo dalle pistole d'oro }}</ref>

In 2020, Guéra started a new series with Jason Aaron titled The Goddamned. This Image Comics series follows the story of the biblical character Cain. The comics features substantial profanity and debuted with an oversized 30-page issue.

==Guéra as a Musician==
Miloešvić is a blues musician and has played in bands such as Strip Bluz Bandu (in Belgrade) and Custom Blend (in Spain).

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://lambiek.net/artists/g/guera_rm.htm Rajko Milošević] on Lambiek Comiclopedia.
* [http://www.rmguera.com Guéra's official website]
* [http://www.scalped.info/ ''Scalped'' website]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120131221118/http://www.brokenfrontier.com/lowdown/p/detail/rm-guera-creator-with-a-heart RM Guéra: Creator with a Heart], an interview, ''Broken fontier'', Jan 25, 2012
* [http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=40969 R.M. Guera Takes On Tarantino's "Django Unchained"], ''Comicbook resources'', Sep 12th, 2012
* [http://www.cinechronicle.com/2012/12/exposition-django-unchained-a-la-galerie-chappe-a-paris-du-10-janvier-au-13-fevrier-2013-70695/ Exposition Django Unchained], on Cinechronicle.com

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