This site is dedicated to our dear parents, Božo and Mirjana, who introduced us to the wonderful world of classic cartoons.



Gordan Calma - Email Gordan

• Born in Banja Luka, former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (now Bosnia-Herzegovina) in 1976.

• Like Hollywood Golden Age cartoons, especially the works of Max and Dave Fleischer, Walt Disney, Tex Avery, Hanna-Barbera, Bob Clampett, and Famous Studios.

• Popeye was always my favourite cartoon and comic book hero. State-controlled TV stations in ex-Yugoslavia used to air 1960s made-for-TV King Features Syndicate “Popeye” cartoons all the time. In addition, local cinemas in my home city often organized screenings of theatrical Famous Studios “Popeye” shorts. Elzie Segar’s original 1930s comic strips used to be re-printed in a number of Popeye-themed books in Serbo-Croatian, while Bud Sagendorf’s version of the sailor was a funny pages regular in one of the country’s most popular weekly magazines called Politikin Zabavnik.

• Immigrated to Canada in 1995. At Carleton University discovered Popeye’s earliest animated pictures made by the legendary New York-based Fleischer Studios, Inc. in the 1930s. The Fleischers’ zany, improvisational, and innovative approach to cartoon-making sparked my academic interest in animation.

• Wrote graduate thesis entitled Cartoon “Realities”: The Animated Body and Narrative Conventions in Walt Disney Productions and Fleischer Studios, Inc. Films of the 1930s.

• Recently programmed a Fleischer Popeye retrospective for the Ottawa 04 International Animation Festival and wrote an article "75 Years of Popeye."

• Make independent movies with brother, Nenad Calma, and friend, Boris Borovcanin. Visit our site at: www.caboca.ca

• Presently work in the Radio/TV Production Dept. of Bowdens Media Monitoring Limited, Ottawa, ON.

Nenad Calma - Email Nenad

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