Askanio Popović (1949) graduated in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade. His first comic strip ‘Armon sa zvezda’ was published in Yu strip in 1979. It was then followed by ‘Mogli, dečak iz džungle’ (Kekec, 1980), ‘Maja’ (Praktična žena, 1979-1981.) ‘Vremeplovac’ (Yu strip, 1981) i ‘Rambold’ (Naš strip, 1984). In years 1984 and 1985 he was creating the licence comic ‘Tom and Jerry’ for Vjesnik newspaper of Zagreb.