Borivoj Dovniković

Borivoj Dovniković (12 December 1930 – 8 February 2022) was a Croatian film director, animator, comic artist [1] and caricaturist.

[4] During the World War II in Yugoslavia and the existence of the Independent State of Croatia Borivoj and his father escaped to Serbia.

[3] In 1949, he arrived in Zagreb where he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts and started to work as a caricaturist and illustrator in newspapers.

[4] Between 1994 and 2022 Dovniković wrote a comic the "Čipko and Grampa Filip" for youth magazine Bijela pčela published in Rijeka by SKD Prosvjeta.

[3] In 2024, the City Assembly of Zagreb named a park in Trešnjevka-north after Borivoj Dovniković.