Iranian magazine to honor cartoonist Derambakhsh

The next edition of Bokhara, which comes out in September, will feature articles and interviews about Derambakhsh.

Derambakhsh, 64, has worked as a cartoonist, graphic designer, and illustrator for 48 years.

He began his career working for a newsletter his father published for the army many years before the victory of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. In 1980, he left Iran to try his luck in Oberhausen, West Germany, where he married a German woman. Now he and his family live in Tehran.

The grand prize at an Istanbul competition in 1990, the grand prize at Japan’s Yomiuri Shimbun competition in 1998, the grand prize of a contest in Sao Paulo, Brazil in 1998, the bronze medal for third place in a South Korean contest in 1998, and the grand prize of a Polish anti-war caricature contest in 2002 are only a few of the many awards he has won in international events.

Many art and cultural centers including the Wilhelm Busch Museum and the Oberhausen Castle in Germany, the Caricature & Cartoon Museum Basel (Switzerland), the Gabrovo House of Humor & Satire (Bulgaria), and the Vienna International Airport have held exhibitions of his works over the past four decades.

Derambakhsh’s latest solo exhibition was held at Nashr-e Salis (Salis Publications) in Tehran in January, displaying his 30 works on football.

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