In 2005 he published an autobiography called ""Smijurija u mjerama"", with mixed to positive reception. Hrvoje Horvat, a Croatian journalist, wrote a biography of Johnny Štulić titled ""Fantom slobode"", ("The Phantom of Freedom"), published in 2006. Due to Štulić's immense popularity in the former Yugoslavia, the book was an immediate commercial success. However, it was also heavily criticized by many literary critics, and even Štulić himself, for its sometime poor writing quality and alleged misinterpretation of facts. Ines Pletikos directed documentary film "Kad Miki kaže da se boji" (2004), while Kruno Petrinović a book, "Prilozi za biografiju Johnnyja B. Štulića" (2006), about the heroes of his poems.