Viktor Ivančić

Who is Viktor Ivančić?

Viktor Ivančić is a Croatian journalist, best known as the founding member and long-time editor-in-chief of satirical weekly Feral Tribune.

A native of Sarajevo, Ivančić edited the student paper of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture at the University of Split. He came to public spotlight in 1980s as a member of VIVA LUDEŽ, trio of young humourists who wrote for humour sections of Split newspapers and magazines like Slobodna Dalmacija, Nedjeljna Dalmacija and Omladinska Iskra. Those weekly supplements, which would ultimately become Feral Tribune, featured his regular column called Bilježnica Robija K., in which he gave satirical comments on important social and political events seen through the eyes of elementary school pupil.

During first years of democracy and Croatian independence Ivančić and Feral Tribune came into conflict with the government of Franjo Tuđman and his Croatian Democratic Union party. In early 1993 Slobodna Dalmacija was taken over by Miroslav Kutle, businessman with close ties to Tuđman's right-hand man Gojko Šušak. As a result, Feral Tribune was removed from the pages of Split daily.