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| Name : | Oguz Aral |
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| ID : | 18568404 |
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| Gender: | Male |
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| Born: | 1936 ( 68 years ) |
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| Country: | Turkey |
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| Passed Away: | 2004 |
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Oguz Aral (1936 – 2004) was a famous cartoonist who founded the cartoon magazine Girgir (meanin fun or echo sound of drilling) with his brother Tekin Aral and created many well-known characters such as Avanak Avni (Avni the Gullible), Utanmaz Adam (Shameless man) Hayk Mammer, Kostebek Husnu (Husnu the mole), Vites Mahmut (Mahmut the gear) and many more. He wrote articles about music, cinema, and theatre and drew cartoons for Hurriyet (a well-known newspaper) until he died. He was also a pantomime artist and had many pantomime performances all over Anatolia.
Oğuz Aral is known as the mentor of the young Turkish artists and influenced them and magazines such as Firt, Deli (insane), Hibir, Mikrop (germ), Leman (a female name), Limon (lemon), Okuz (ox), Hayvan (animal), Penguen, Uykusuz (sleepless) and many others that contributed to Turkish humour magazines.
He died in 2004 and his friends and fans built a statue for his memory at the Cihangir Park. However, his statue was attacked and destroyed 3 times. Now they are planning to build a new one.
Girgir is a cult humour magazine founded by Oguz Aral in 1972 and it was believed to be the third most selling humour magazines in the world (after Crocodile in the USSR and Mad in the USA) in the 70’s with nearly a million copies a week until it ended in 1989. It was outstandingly critical of all social and political issues and was banned for a while after the 1980 military coup.
Avanak Avni is the most well-known cartoon character created by Oguz Aral. He is a typical little boy living in a suburb that Oguz Aral was inspired by an office boy, Riza Kulegec, working in Girgir. Girgir became very popular |
Oguz Aral (1936 – 2004) was a famous cartoonist who founded the cartoon magazine Girgir (meanin fun or echo sound of drilling) with his brother Tekin Aral and created many well-known characters such as Avanak Avni (Avni the Gullible), Utanmaz Adam (Shameless man) Hayk Mammer, Kostebek Husnu (Husnu the mole), Vites Mahmut (Mahmut the gear) and many more. He wrote articles about music, cinema, and theatre and drew cartoons for Hurriyet (a well-known newspaper) until he died. He was also a pantomime artist and had many pantomime performances all over Anatolia.
Oğuz Aral is known as the mentor of the young Turkish artists and influenced them and magazines such as Firt, Deli (insane), Hibir, Mikrop (germ), Leman (a female name), Limon (lemon), Okuz (ox), Hayvan (animal), Penguen, Uykusuz (sleepless) and many others that contributed to Turkish humour magazines.
He died in 2004 and his friends and fans built a statue for his memory at the Cihangir Park. However, his statue was attacked and destroyed 3 times. Now they are planning to build a new one.
Girgir is a cult humour magazine founded by Oguz Aral in 1972 and it was believed to be the third most selling humour magazines in the world (after Crocodile in the USSR and Mad in the USA) in the 70’s with nearly a million copies a week until it ended in 1989. It was outstandingly critical of all social and political issues and was banned for a while after the 1980 military coup.
Avanak Avni is the most well-known cartoon character created by Oguz Aral. He is a typical little boy living in a suburb that Oguz Aral was inspired by an office boy, Riza Kulegec, working in Girgir. Girgir became very popular in Turkey as well as Avni as the symbol of the magazine. Oguz Aral opened a few Girgir exhibitions in France and Belgium and this made Avni even more popular abroad that he was even used by the sociolist groups as the symbol of many demonstrations in France, Holland, Mexico, Germany, South Africa etc. against racism and imperialism.
Oguz Aral published a new humour magazine called “Avni” in 1990-1996 after Girgir was closed. Avni is still published by different artists in memory of Oguz Aral.
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