● Birthplace: Nowshahr
● Website: www.abdicartoon.com
Biography
He says: I was interested in black painting of my childhood. Seeing first issue of Caricature magazine in 1969, I started pulling Caricature. Then, with the guidance of Mr. Mohsen Davallo, the famous and veteran cartoonist and director of the Caricature magazine and with the encouragement of my uncle, Mr. Hormoz Pourmehdi, I started and continued my work. In the upper secondary school I read a natural field and paintings by teacher, Mr. Baqeri drew me on the blackboard. In the year 1971, I got a Diploma in the cartoon contest of the first cartoon magazine, and I had 5 gold coins from it. I was not allowed to continue my studies against the desire and inevitably in management. The first individual exhibition of cartoon in the year 1973 in Lahijan School of Management and the second in the Youth Palace of Rasht I held this year. During my studies in 1973, I was portrayed the first and second book of the Child. In these years caricatures I regularly published in the cartoon magazine. In 1977 in the first group exhibition, which was held by the Iranian-American Cultural Society in Tehran, I attended the elders of this field. This year, I participated in the recruitment test of the TV in the field of animated painting and after the training course, I was hired in the educational TV, which after the revolution, I was recruited to the two networks, and I was working in this network until the year 2001. (Other than the last five years I was transferred to the art company of Saba and IRIB.)
Caricatures of Abdi’s master, since 1974, has been published in the press. He is now collaborating with the Kayhan magazine, comic, caricature, and Hamshahri newspapers and Jamejam. In the past, he also collaborated with Bohlool, Shangool and Fokahion publications.
Activities
– I have a nest in your teeth; A 15-minute film about toothpaste that lives in the mouth of a rural child and makes him incapacitated. Finally, a wise bear saves him by teaching him the correct way to brush his teeth. This film participated in the Fajr Film Festival in 1984.
– Making the serial number in the house, from Bijan Birang and Masoud Rasam
– Making a number of screens for educational films
– Short sports Films (104 videos), the second winner of the Festival of Sport films in the years 2002 and 2003, which was held by the National Olympic Academy and also at the International Festival of Milan Sports films 2003 in Italy, the result of activities and work in the Islamic Republic TV – IRIB
– Continuous activity in comics publications: Bohlool, Shangolbashi and Fokahion after the Islamic revolution
– Illustration of more than 120 children’s book volumes so far
– Live presence by pulling cartoons and playing in television programs because they have brought the door to the house, the diary of Ramadan, speed matches and accuracy, children’s know-how, tomorrow comes to spring, learn a kind of war and tales
Fringe Activities
1979 – Character design surpassed the first of West Asian Games-Tehran
– Designing Mr. Safety character for National Iranian Gas Company
– Character Design Isako
– Design personality Mr. Paksho for Golrang Company
– Noor Battery Character design
– Personality design for Iran Automotive assistance Company
Arbitration
1997 – International Human and Nature Cartoon Festival-Tehran
2005 – 7th Tehran Caricature Biennial
2007 – 1st Regional Festival of Kermanshah Caricature
2007 – 2008 – Young Art visual arts Festival-in two periods
2008 – the second festival of choice of research and innovation in the field of urban managers (art section of cartoon field
2008 – International Muslim Youth Festival-Gorgan
2008 – Fajr International Visual Arts Festival
– Environmental – Tehran
– Addiction – Tabriz
– Housing – Tehran
– 2nd International Urban Problems Competition – Tehran
Animation
1982 – Surf / Animator
1984 – In Your Teeth Nest/ Director, designer storyboard, designer Leah August, character designer, key framing animator, pencil testing, editor-in-chief
1989 – Bike Rules / Designer storyboard, character designer, key frames animator
1989 – Prohibited entry / Character designer
1989 – Pedestrian Line / Character designer
1989 – pedestrian / Character designer
1994 – 1995 – Simple Adventures / Character designer
1999 – Between Sports Curtains / Director, author, designer storyboard, character designer
2000 – 2002 – Simple Adventures 2 / Character designer
– At Home / Director, title, designer storyboard, character designer, key frames animator, mid-frame animator
– Abbasqoli Khan II / Director, title, designer storyboard, character designer, key frame animator
– All My Girls / Director, title, character designer
TV
– They have brought that
– Inside the door of the house
– Ramadan memories
– Speed and accuracy matches
– Children’s knowledge
– Tomorrow comes spring
– Kind friend remembrance
– A series of war stories
Authorities
1984 – Caricature jury selected by the 2nd Iranian graphic Biennial
2004 – 1st place of the FT Internet race
1984 – 2nd place of urban challenges
2004 – 2nd place in the 3rd Caricature global competition
1985 – Special International competition award Caricature Aydin Doghan Turkey
1987 – First place 8th Tehran Caricature Biennial in the comic strip
2008 – 1st place of the 4th exhibition and competition «Art, Sport, Olympic, Paralympic
2003 – Appreciation Award of 21st International Sports and Television Film Festival in Milan, Italy, because of laughter and sports films
– Appreciation Certificate of Art Academy to pass an effective presence in the Caricature field
– Second place due to film between sports curtain of the first and Second International Festival of Sport and television films in Tehran
Awards
– Individual and collective exhibitions of 1973, 1974, 1977, 1999 and…
2012 – Caricature exhibition at the artists ‘ house
2012 – Get a great Fajr logo
2012 – Get an indication of the classy art
– The Caricature of the visual festivals of Shamseh (Tehran Municipality) in 2013 and 2014 and 2015
2007 – First place in comic strip, 8th International Caricature Biennial of Tehran
– Arbitration of international Caricature festivals, in Kermanshah, Bojnurd, Mashhad, Birjand, Tabriz, etc.
– Dabiri 3, Caricature section, Fajr International Visual Festival
– Arbitration of Caricature section at Fajr International Visual Festival
– Arbitration of several international Caricature biennial courses in Tehran
– Membership in Caricature Biennial of Tehran Biennale
– Membership of the Policy Council of Fajr International Festival
– Membership of Iran Caricature House Advisory Council
– Caricature of the Young Festival of Art in several periods
– International arbitration Festival of Resistance
– Several international Youth Festival arbitration courses in Gorgan and Aliabad Katool and Ardebil
– Caricature Teacher
– Work in the press before and after the Islamic revolution
