After a two-decade pause, Serbian-Canadian illustrator and cartoonist Ivana Filipovich returned to cartooning and writing in 2018. Since then, her comics have been published in Canada, Sweden, Slovenia, Belgium, Czechia, and Serbia. In 2023, Conundrum Press released her debut graphic novel, What's Fear got to do with it?. Supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the book was featured on CBC Books’ 20 Graphic Novels to Read in Fall 2023. In April 2023, Filipovich received Canada’s Doug Wright Award (DWA) for Where have you been?, a collection of short comics. She became the first cartoonist from Western Canada to win a DWA. Spanning hundreds of pages, Filipovich’s comics have been published by respected publishers and featured in some of Europe’s most prestigious literary and cultural magazines. Meanwhile, her digital illustrations have been showcased in Canadian museums. As a designer, illustrator, art director, and executive producer of educational media, she has received numerous international and domestic accolades alongside her Simon Fraser University team, including the invitation-only United Nations World Summit Award for the world's best online content. She is a member of StripoTetke (Comics Aunties), a Balkan-based association promoting comic arts diversity.