Javad Alizadeh
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Javad Alizadeh ({{langx|fa| جواد علیزاده }} Javād Alīzādeh {{IPA|fa|dʒævɒːd(-e) æliːˈzɒːde}}; 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.wittyworld.com/news.html|title=WittyWorld News|publisher=Wittyworld.com|accessdate=18 November 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120307133424/http://www.wittyworld.com/news.html|archivedate=7 March 2012}} An active artist since 1970, his works have been published in international publications.{{cite web|url=http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=217776 |title=Ankara festival displaying works by Iranian cartoonist |work=Tehran Times |date=18 April 2010 |accessdate=2010-09-20}} 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
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| style="text-align: left;" | Caricatures can decrease violence and bring cultures closer. They aim to promote peace and teach us to be moderate and laugh at our problems. |
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Alizadeh was born on 9 January 1953 in Ardebil, northwestern Iran, and graduated BA in English translation.{{cite web|url=http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=156856 |title=Istanbul to host Iranian cartoonist's workshop |work=Tehran Times|date=11 November 2007 |accessdate=2010-09-20}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.golagha.ir/news/?ty=3&id=2695 |title=Golagha Institute |publisher=Golagha.ir |accessdate=2010-09-20}}http://zamaaneh.com/literature/2007/08/post_379.htm {{dead link|date=September 2010}}{{cite web|url=http://www.aftab.ir/articles/art_culture/caricature/c5c1244606423_publications_p1.php|title=جای خالی نشریات فکاهی و طنز سنتی ایران|publisher=Aftab.ir|accessdate=18 November 2014}} This humorous magazine publishes both pictorial and written humor about various subjects such as politics, sports, cinema, music and philosophy. Prominent cartoonists such as Bahman Abdi, Ali Derakhshi, Ali Miraeee and Bahar Mowahed have collaborated with this magazine. 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 Iranian society".{{cite web |url=http://tanz-o-caricature.8m.com/index.html |title=tanz-o-caricature |publisher=Tanz-o-caricature.8m.com |accessdate=2010-09-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130826000043/http://www.tanz-o-caricature.8m.com/index.html |archive-date=26 August 2013 |url-status=dead }}
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.{{citation needed|date=July 2021}} 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 Who's Who in Satire and Humor, Nebelspalter, Chicago tribune, Courrier International, Graphis annual, Osten, Mondial.
A former staff writer and editor of the Witty World{{cite web|url=http://www.wittyworld.com/|title=Witty World web site|publisher=Wittyworld.com|accessdate=18 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029205010/http://www.wittyworld.com/#|archive-date=29 October 2013|url-status=dead}} 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 Poland.{{cite web |url=http://www.sadurski.com/Partia%20DH/czl-rys-zagr.htm |title=Great cartoonists in Good Humor Party – cartoonist, cartoons, rysunek satyryczny |publisher=Sadurski.com |accessdate=2010-09-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100915145457/http://www.sadurski.com/Partia%20DH/czl-rys-zagr.htm |archive-date=15 September 2010 |url-status=dead }}
Mad Commentator
Alizadeh created a humorous mascot called Mad Commentator ({{langx|fa|مفسر شوت}}) who rose to fame after correctly "predicting" the result of the opening match between Argentina and Cameroon at the 1990 FIFA World Cup.{{cite web|url=http://www.asriran.com/fa/news/120783/%D9%85%D9%81%D8%B3%D8%B1-%D8%B4%D9%88%D8%AA |title=مفسر شوت |publisher=Asriran.com |accessdate=2010-09-22}}
''4D Humor''
Influenced by Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton, he created a scientific/philosophical cartoon on the Theory of RelativityArida, Ayssar, Quantum City, p. 41. Architectural Press, 2002. titled 4D Humor. He has also published a column (including cartoons, caricatures and satire) in his monthly magazine of the same title.{{cite web |author=yektaweb يكتاوب |url=http://www.jazirehdanesh.com/page.php?slct_pg_id=220&sid=12&slc_lang=fa |title=جزيره دانش – جواد عليزاده- – گالري 9 |publisher=Jazirehdanesh.com |accessdate=2010-09-20 |archive-date=24 November 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101124172654/http://jazirehdanesh.com/page.php?slct_pg_id=220&sid=12&slc_lang=fa |url-status=dead }}
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.{{cite web|url=http://www.wyp2005.org/play.html |title=WYP2005 |publisher=WYP2005 |accessdate=2010-09-20}}
In October 2008, his scientific cartoon on twin paradox in special relativity 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.{{cite web |url=http://cerncourier.com/cws/article/cern/37331/1/ccspi3_01_09 |title=CERN Courier |website=cerncourier.com |access-date=2 February 2022 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120708110634/http://cerncourier.com/cws/article/cern/37331/1/ccspi3_01_09 |archive-date=8 July 2012 |url-status=dead}}
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 International Festival of the Humor of Bordighera, 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){{cite web | url=https://sanalmuze.aydindoganvakfi.org.tr/competitions/29-aydin-dogan-uluslararasi-karikatur-yarismasi-2012-57 | title=29. Aydın Doğan International Cartoon Competition – Aydın Doğan Vakfı }}{{cite web | url=https://www.irancartoon.ir/gallery/album587 | title=Irancartoon Web Gallery :: The Results of 29th Aydin Dogan International Cartoon Contest/ Turkey }}
- Honorable mentions at the United Nations/Ranan Lurie Political Cartoon Awards (2016){{cite web | url=https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/409597/Iranian-artist-Javad-Alizadeh-honored-at-UN-Ranan-Lurie-Political | title=Iranian artist Javad Alizadeh honored at UN/Ranan Lurie Political Cartoon Awards | date=30 December 2016 }}
- First Caricature Prize in Gallarate Contest, Italy (2019){{cite web | url=https://www.irancartoon.com/site/winners/javad-alizadeh-from-iran-won-first-prize-of-gallarate-contest | title=Javad Alizadeh from Iran Won First Prize of Gallarate Contest }}
Bibliography
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! Year !! English title !! Persian !!Pages!! Notes | ||||
| 1977 | Image of Hedayat | Tasvīr-e Hedāyat | - | Portraits of Sadegh Hedayat |
| rowspan="2"| 1980 | Shootball! | Šūtbāl! | - | Cartoons about Football |
| Hundred Jokes, Hundred Cartoons | Sad Latīfeh, Sad Kārton | - | - | |
| 1982 | World Cup Humors | Tanzhā-ye Jām-e Jahānī | - | Cartoons on 1982 World Cup |
| rowspan="2"| 1984 | TV Comics/Cartoons | - | - | - |
| Serious Cartoons | Kārikāturhā-ye Jeddī | - | Black humor cartoons | |
| rowspan="2"| 1985 | News-maker Politicians | Siyāsatmadārān-e Xabarsāz | Portraits of Politicians | |
| Cinema Comedians | Komediyanhā-ye Sīnemā | - | Portraits of comic actors | |
| 1986 | World Cup Humors | Tanzhā-ye Jām-e Jahānī | Cartoons on 1986 World Cup | |
| 1987 | TV Comics/Cartoons | - | - | |
| 1988 | Missile Humor under Missile Attacks! | Tanz-e – Mūšakī - | Black humor created during War of the Cities | |
| 1989 | New Jokes, New Cartoons | Latifehā-ye Rūz, Kārtonhā-ye Rūz | - | - |
| rowspan="2"| 1990 | World Cup Humors | Tanzhā-ye Jām-e Jahānī | Cartoons on 1990 World Cup | |
| Joking with Einstein(4D Humor) | Šūkhī bā Einstein | - | Cartoons and humors on Albert Einstein's humorous character, Relativity theory, curvature of time/space, weight of light |
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
See also
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References
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External links
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- [https://web.archive.org/web/20081008024745/http://javadalizadeh.com/ Official Website] {{in lang|en|fa}}
- [http://daavaj.blogfa.com/ Alizadeh's weblog] {{in lang|fa}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20100923073502/http://www.tanz-o-caricature.8m.com/ Tanz o Caricature's Page] {{in lang|en}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20101016013156/http://www.javad.8m.com/ 4D Humor] {{in lang|en}}
- [http://www.irancartoon.ir/artists/categories.php?cat_id=5 Profile] at the [http://www.irancartoon.ir/ Iran Cartoon]
- [https://osucartoons.pastperfectonline.com/vocabulary?keyword=Alizadeh%2C+Javad%2C+1953-&letter=A&searchtype=creator&showsearch=true Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum Art Database]
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