Javad Alizadeh ( fa, جواد علیزاده Javād Alīzādeh ; professional name: Javad; born 9 January 1953) is an Iranian professional cartoonist best known for his caricatures of politicians, comic actors, footballers, and for his scientific/philosophical column (including cartoons, caricatures and satire) titled ''4D Humor'', which has won awards from Italy, China and Japan. An active artist since 1970, his works have been published in international publications. He is the founder of the leading monthly cartoon magazine ''Humor & Caricature'' and is its founding and current publisher and editor-in-chief.

Early life

Alizadeh was born on 9 January 1953 in Ardebil, northwestern Iran, and graduated BA in English translation. Influenced by his university degree, he considers writing and drawing cartoons as a tool that can translate sufferings, hardships and the mysteries of life into humorous language. In 1990 he founded his monthly cartoon magazine ''Humor & Caricature'' and since then he has been the editor and publisher of this independent and private publication. This humorous magazine publishes both pictorial and written humor about various subjects such as politics, sports, cinema, music and philosophy. According to the official website of the magazine, the purpose of the publication is "to promote peace, laughter, tolerance, moderation and multidimensional and multilateral insight in

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". Alizadeh has also attended numerous cartoon conferences in Japan, Malta, Turkey, Bulgaria, Finland, and has served on the jury of the Skopje 86, Anglet( France ) 91, Dubai 2002, Izmir 2008 cartoon festivals and Tehran Cartoon Biennial in 1993, 1995, 1997 and 2005. He has experimented with different styles and genres of humor such as editorial, gags, portrait caricatures and black caricatures, black humor, comic strips, sport humor, surrealistic and philosophical humor, and his works have been published in many leading foreign presses and publications in the 1980s and 1990s by C & W syndicate, including ''

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'', '' Graphis annual'', ''Osten'', ''Mondial''. A former staff writer and editor of the Witty World cartoon magazine, Alizadeh is a member of the international Cartoonists & Writers Syndicate. He also holds membership of the Good Humor Party, a humorous party in

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Mad Commentator

Alizadeh created a humorous

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called ''Mad Commentator'' ( fa, مفسر شوت) who rose to fame after correctly "predicting" the result of the opening match between Argentina and Cameroon at the

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''4D Humor''

Influenced by

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and

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, he created a scientific/philosophical cartoon on the

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titled ''4D Humor''. He has also published a column (including cartoons, caricatures and satire) in his monthly magazine of the same title. In 2005 the website of the World Year of Physics carried a link to his cartoons about relativism on its "play physics page", showing his scientific cartoons. In October 2008, his scientific cartoon on

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was shown and studied in the reading class and conference held by CERN Courier.com (The International Journal of High-Energy Physics site) in Trieste, Italy.

Awards

Alizadeh has won some 30 prizes in international cartoon festivals including: *First Caricature Prize in Anglet Cartoon Festival, France (1990) *Silver Date prize in

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, Italy (1996) *First Cartoon Prize in Ankara 7-77 Cartoon for the children Festival, Turkey (2007) *First cartoon prize in Istanbul Aydin dogan cartoon festival, Turkey (2012) *Honorable mentions at the United Nations/Ranan Lurie Political Cartoon Awards (2016) *First Caricature Prize in Gallarate Contest, Italy (2019)

Bibliography

Gallery

File:"Attached to the Village" by Javad Alizadeh.jpg, ''Attached to the Village'' File:"Ancient Iran" by Javad Alizadeh.jpg, ''Ancient Iran'' File:"Samuel Beckett" by Javad Alizadeh.jpg, ''Samuel Beckett'' File:Javad alizadeh surreal-Surreal suicide.jpg, ''Surreal Suicide'' File:Javad alizadeh -penetrating-pen.jpg, ''Penetrating Pen'' File:Javad alizadeh ocean-of-sorrow-.jpg, ''Ocean of Sorrow'' File:Javad alizadeh joking-on--amazing-formula.jpg, ''Joking on Amazing Formula'' File:Javad alizadeh hedayat-iranian-black-novelist.jpg, '' Hedayat, Black Novelist'' File:Javad alizadeh divorce-child.jpg, ''Divorce Child''

References

External links

Official Website

Alizadeh's weblog

Tanz o Caricature's Page

4D Humor

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