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Srećko Puntarić was born in 1952 in Zagreb. After graduating from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture in Zagreb, he worked as a designer for several years. He dedicated himself to caricatures in 1975 when he began publishing in the renewed humor magazine Kerempuh. Although Puntarić entered the Croatian scene when the doyens of Croatian caricature, Oto Reisinger and Ico Voljevica, were exceptionally popular and active, alongside caricaturists like Joško Marušić and Mladen Bašić in the magazine Kerempuh at that time, he did not rely on anyone from his environment in his artistic expression. Puntarić’s artistic form was mostly influenced by the French caricaturist Jean-Marc Reiser, whose drawing style and approach to humor he transformed in line with his character and personal sense of visualizing humorous ideas.