Bordo grew up with Walt Disney and Harold Foster as his idols. his first comic strip 'Udarnik Ratko', was published in Glas Slavonije. In 1950, Bordo joined a group of cartoonists from Kerempuh. They produced the first Yugoslav artistic cartoon film 'The Big Meeting' (1951), which is considered the beginning of the modern Croatian/Yugoslav animation. That same year he left the Academy and came back to comic strips with his most popular strip 'Velika Utakmica'. As a cartoonist Bordo worked for the Beograd humor weekly Jez and other Zagreb and Yugoslav newspapers. From 1994 he regularly published cartoons in the Zagreb based magazine Hrvatska ljevica.
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