Cartoonist Celebrates 25 Years as ‘Chronicler of Croatian Stupidity’

A retrospective exhibition of caricatures by the famous Croatian cartoonist Nikola Plecko, known as Nik Titanik, marking his quarter-century-long career, opened on Tuesday at Zagreb's Mimara Museum.

The exhibition entitled "The Chronicle of Croatian Stupidity" includes several hundred original drawings and digital prints of cartoons that represent a cross section of the author's work from the first works created in the second half of the 1980s through to his first published works in 1994, to cartoons he created for many Croatian daily newspapers.

As highlighted in the exhibition announcement, "Nik Titanik is the only cartoonist, probably in the whole world, who publishes two cartoons daily in daily newspapers," with insightful and sometimes sharp comments on current events and phenomena. His inspirations are politicians and public figures as well.

Titanic says that as a "chronicler of Croatian stupidity", his caricatures spare no one, not even himself.

A caricature depicting the first Croatian president, Franjo Tudjman, who says "We have Croatia!" during the 1990s war and a homeless man who said in 2011: "Share something, we only have Croatia". Photo: Nik Titanik.

A caricature depicting a German who says: "My God! In Croatia the standard is so high that even scumbags have a laptop!" Photo: Nik Titanik.

Caricature depicting US President Donald Trump and Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic: "Scene from the NATO summit showing that caricatures without words are the best caricatures". Photo: Nik Titanik.

A caricature depicting Zagreb's Mayor Milan Bandic climbing the steps (that reads: mayor, prime minister, president of EU leaders, emperor of the world, head of the galaxy, master of the space) to...