TEHRAN, Aug. 14 (MNA) � Iranian cartoonist Kambiz Derambakhsh has said that he is �strongly influenced� by English comic actor and filmmaker Sir Charles Spencer �Charlie� Chaplin.
�He is my idol,� Derambakhsh admitted during a meeting at the City Book Institute in Tehran on Monday. The meeting was part of �The Artistic Dialogue�, a program organized by the institute every week.

�Chaplin�s works are simple, silent, emotional and meaningful. The works make people laugh and enjoy themselves, but they have not been produced just to make you laugh,� he stated.

Derambakhsh, who won the Grand Prize at the 33rd International Nasreddin Hodja Cartoon Contest in Istanbul, Turkey in mid-July, said that he would not like to draw cartoons about politicians and political issues.

�Politicians have become thick-skinned and cartoons do not affect them anymore,� he said.

�I would like my works to refresh the world and� to give people peace of mind,� he added.

The veteran cartoonist has participated in many international events in Canada, Bulgaria, Turkey, Italy, Belgium and Brazil over the past four decades.

He won the grand prize at Japan�s Yomiuri Shimbun competition in 1998, the grand prize of a contest in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 1998, the bronze medal for third place of a South Korean contest in 1998, and the grand prize of a Polish anti-war caricature contest in 2002.

By Mehr News Agency

 

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