Zvonimir Grbasic was born in 1951 in Karlovac, Croatia. He graduated from the Faculty of Dentistry, University of Zagreb and the Medical Officer School in Belgrade. As an illustrator, he worked for the magazine Hrvatski vojnik (Croatian soldier) of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Croatia, and then for military history magazines in Germany, France, Spain and The Netherlands. He co-authored three books: The History of Cavalry andCavalry , both with V. Vuksic; and Hrvati, slike iz ratnicke proslosti (Croats, the pictures from the warriors' history) with Mazuran, Radilovic, Trnski, Vuksic.