Erdil Yasaroglu

Erdil Yasaroglu was born in 1971 in Istanbul. He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Sculpture at Mimar Sinan University. He got involved in professional caricature in the 90s. Throughout these years, Erdil has won nearly 30 awards from both local and international caricature competitions he participated in. He created the "Komikaze" column in Limon and Leman magazines. Also in these years, he wrote various scripts for TV shows, wrote plays and gave lessons on caricature at Bosphorus and Bilgi Universities. In 2002, he founded the "Penguen" magazine with his friends. They then went on to publish "Lombak", "Kemik" and "Hayvan" magazines. In 2010, he got into the Guinness World Records book, by drawing the world's largest caricature with the size of 12,000 square meters. In 2014, he published the first humor magazine for children, "Super Penguin". He became co-producer on the animated movie "The Bad Cat" in 2016. His books, published as Komikaze, sold over 1 million copies. He joined sculpture exhibitions in Turkey and abroad. Nowadays, he is involved with his keynotes entitled "Backstage Of Humor" and "Brain Pain", which explore the backstory of humor, thinking techniques and alternative ways of looking at life. He is now drawing for the "Super Penguin" magazine and making sculptures in his studio in Istanbul.