Krešimir Zimonić (1956) regularly publishes illustrations and comics from the mid-seventies in more than 50 newspapers and magazines. Since 1979 he has been working professionally in animated film, and since 1981 he has been an independent artist. He is the author or producer of numerous animated films. In addition to his seven published comic book collections, he has illustrated over twenty books, designed numerous posters, catalogues and texts on comics and animation, exhibited at group and solo exhibitions, was the editor-in-chief of the comics magazine Patak and the long-time artistic director of the Comics Salon in Vinkovci. He worked as an artistic producer in Zagreb film, graphic and visual editor of the Modra lasta magazine, as a lecturer at the Department of Animation and New Media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, and from 2007 to 2011 he was artistic director of the World Festival of Animated Film - Animafest Zagreb.