Born
in Anatolia - Turkey. He published his
first cartoon in local political
newspapers in 1978. In the following
years, he published his work in several
humor magazines and newspapers. He also
illustrated children's books and
greeting cards. After moving to U.S. in
1989, he worked on graphic and textile
design. His first comics were published
in WORLD WAR 3 Illustrated.
His creation CAVEMAN appeared in HEAVY
METALin 1993. In 1997 CAVEMAN stories
are collected as a graphic novel by NBM.
His collaboration with writer Joel Rose
and Amos Poe produced the mystery book
LA PACIFICA (282 pages) for Paradox/DC
Comics in 1994. He inked 4 issues of The
DREAMING for VERTIGO/DC. Meanwhile, work
of his can be found in all Paradox The
BIG BOOK OF... collections.
His erotics books BUSHWHACKED, CAVE BANG
#1, #2, #3, #4,
PET,
FLESHPOT and LEWD MOANA have been
published by EROS COMIX. He also
produces erotic drawings for several
magazines in U.S. (Screw, Hustler etc.)
and in Europe (Penthouse COMIX in Spain,
Blue in Italy etc.)
He has self published 4 CAVEMAN comic
books. A hard cover graphic novel ( as
it has been picked as "a book of
month" by FNAC in France) has been
published by French publisher 2L
PRODUCTIONS. Caveman comic book just
relased in Spain in 2001 by DUDE Comics.
Also in Turkey, CAVEMAN series has been
published in several major newspapers
such as Yeni Yuzyil and RADIKAL.
He created a new comic strip character
called CAVE'N. His latest project is
animated CAVEMAN shorts. He tought a
course on Sequential Art: How Comics
Rule at the School of Visual Arts in New
York and now lives in Williamsburg,
BROOKLYN.
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