Dragan Savić graduated in scenography, but worked as a journalist, illustrator and painter. He had his first caricatures published in Borac magazine. Since 1953 he was a contributor to Jež magazine and regular caricature artist of Borba magazine. His caricatures were published in many foreign newspapers, including the New York Times and Chicago Sunday Times. He received several prizes for his works, including the first prize on the topic “Caricature fighting for peace” in 1961 in the USA. In his comic strip ‘Tarcaneta’, which was published in Mikijevo carstvo, he revived a character that had been designed by Nikola Navojev.

Dragan Savić, “Tarcaneta” #4, 1940, 37 x 51 cm