Artist Profile | Cartoon & Caricature

Javad Alizadeh

He was born in 1953 in Ardebil, Azerbaijan, Iran. She earned a bachelor's degree in English language translation. He is a self-taught cartoonist who has been creating caricatures since 1970. He is also the founding editor and publisher of Iran's oldest private and independent monthly caricature magazine “Tanz O Caricature” (Humor & Caricature) since 1990. His caricatures have been published in international newspapers and magazines through C&W; Syndicate in the 1980s and 1990s. He is a member of the International Union of Cartoonists and Writers and a former member of the editorial team of the Ingenious World Cartoon Publication . He has worked in various genres within caricature, such as: “Editorial Gag”, portrait caricatures and black caricatures, black humor, sports comics, surreal, philosophical and singular humor. Awards and honours He has won three national awards and 30 international awards in France, Italy, Japan, Korea, Turkey, China, the United States, Ukraine and so on. • First Prize for Caricature at the Anglet Festival - France – 1990. • Three Tolentino awards – Italy – 1991,1993 and 1995 • Bordigherea Prize - Italy - 1996 • First place Ankara - 2007 • UN Cartoon Mention Awards in 2011 and 2016 • First place Aydon Dogan – Turkey - (with the collaboration of Dogan Arslan) - 2012 • “First Caricature Prize from Anglet, France in 1991, where I participated for the first time and won the first cash prize and the title of Knight of Caricature and was invited to France for a week's stay. Could there be anything better than this?” • “Silver award from the Bordigehra cartoon festival (Italy) in 1996, which was a very prestigious award. Even though I traveled to Italy to receive my award in person, due to financial problems of the organizers, I was not able to get it there, but it was recorded on my resume.” • “First prize of the Ankara cartoon festival with the theme "boy" I won, the only cash prize of this festival ($2000) plus a week's stay in Ankara. I really enjoyed it, because I sent a caricature there compared to the common and usual works of the festival. I did not draw a funny, comical and laughable cartoon to make children artificially laugh, I drew a bitter cartoon about a divorced child to warn families to avoid divorce if they can, and also to feel sympathy for divorced children.” • Award for mention of UN cartoons in 2011 and 2017 awarded by the UN journalists association. • “First place for Aydin Dogan with the collaboration of Turkish cartoonist Dogan Arslan in 2012, however, at first we thought that the cash prize sum would be divided between two of us, but the Aydin Dogan foundation decided to pay $8,000 for each cartoonist winner as a sign of generous attitude.” He was a member of the jury of different national and international cartoon festivals, including: Skopje Cartoon Festival (Macedonia) in 1986 and 2014, Anglet (France) in 1991, Dubai (Emirates) in 2002, and the cartoon festival cartoons of Izmir (Turkey) 2009, member of the jury in other local cartoon festivals and jury of the annual cartoon contests of the magazine Tanz-o-caricature.