Bordo

(Borivoj Dovnikovic)

(b. 1930, Croatia)

Nogometa, by Bordo (Borivoj Dovnikovic)
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.