Javad Alizadeh

Javad Alizadeh ( 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 Caricatures can decrease violence and bring cultures closer. They aim to promote peace and teach us to be moderate and laugh at our problems. Javad Alizadeh

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.http://zamaaneh.com/literature/2007/08/post_379.htm 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, and humorists such as Rouhollah Zamzameh 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".

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 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 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.

Mad Commentator Alizadeh created a humorous mascot called Mad Commentator () who rose to fame after correctly "predicting" the result of the opening match between Argentina and Cameroon at the 1990 FIFA World Cup.

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.

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 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.

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) Honorable mentions at the United Nations/Ranan Lurie Political Cartoon Awards (2016) First Caricature Prize in Gallarate Contest, Italy (2019)

Bibliography Year English title Persian Pages Notes 1977 Image of HedayatTasvīr-e Hedāyat - Portraits of Sadegh Hedayat 1980 Shootball!Šūtbāl! - Cartoons about FootballHundred Jokes, Hundred CartoonsSad Latīfeh, Sad Kārton - - 1982 World Cup HumorsTanzhā-ye Jām-e Jahānī - Cartoons on 1982 World Cup 1984 TV Comics/Cartoons - - -Serious CartoonsKārikāturhā-ye Jeddī - Black humor cartoons 1985 News-maker PoliticiansSiyāsatmadārān-e Xabarsāz Portraits of PoliticiansCinema ComediansKomediyanhā-ye Sīnemā - Portraits of comic actors 1986 World Cup HumorsTanzhā-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 CartoonsLatifehā-ye Rūz, Kārtonhā-ye Rūz - - 1990 World Cup HumorsTanzhā-ye Jām-e Jahānī Cartoons on 1990 World CupJoking with Einstein(4D Humor)Šūkhī bā Einstein - Cartoons and humors on Albert Einstein'shumorous character, Relativity theory,curvature of time/space, weight of light

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Documentaries Three documentaries have been made about Javad Alizadeh: Profession: Cartoonist* (2007), directed by Rouhollah Zamzameh;“به‌خاطر دویست شماره‌ی طنز و کاریکاتور، مستند ‘حرفه: کاریکاتوریست’ نمایش داده می‌شود,” ایسنا. Retrieved from https://www.isna.ir/news/8605-08202/ Javad* (2019), directed by Jamshid Ebrazi; Davaj Paradiso* (2024), directed by Masoud Enami.Davaj Paradiso (2024), IMDb

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