Joško Marušić
Croatian comic artist and filmmaker
Joško Marušić, born in Split on March 27, 1952, is a Croatian author of animated films, caricaturist, illustrator and university professor.
Biography
Joško Marušić was born in Split in 1952, where he graduated from the classical high school, and after that, from the Faculty of Architecture, University of Zagreb in 1975.
An architect by education, he is interested in caricature, comics, illustrations, literature, film production, theory of animation, and was a TV personality with his own TV show.
He is considered one of the most important authors of the Zagreb School of Animated Films. His films won a number of awards at animated and short film festivals – often Grands Prix and other major awards: Annecy, Oberhausen, Ottawa, Zagreb, London, Miami, Chicago, Tampere, Brussels, Melbourne, Madrid, Rotterdam, Belgrade.
He was also art director of the animation studio at Zagreb Film from 1987 to 1989, and again from 1992 to 1998. From 1992 to 1998, he was art director of the Zagreb World Festival of Animated Film (known as Animafest Zagreb). He was a member of numerous film juries, founder of some animated film schools and visiting professor at several European universities.
He was the author of the concept and program. Additionally, in 1999, he was the founder and first principal of the Animation and New Media Department (as an entirely new department) at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb.
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