Mojtaba Heidarpanah | |
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| مجتبی حیدرپناه | |
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| Born | April 6, 1990 |
| Nationality | Iranian |
| Education | Yazd University |
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Mojtaba Heidarpanah (Persian: مجتبی حیدرپناه; born 6 َApril 1990 in Abadeh) is an Iranian cartoonist, illustrator, painter, character designer and animator. Heidarpanah is best known for his series of cartoons called "Riot Police". From this collection, the work "The Thinker" won the third place in the 37th Aydin Dogan Cartoon Competition [1][2][3][4][5][6]
Also, this artist's artwork of Bending Streetlight[7][8] has been used as a meme among internet users since 2019.[9]
Mojtaba, was born in Abadeh city, the sixth child of Gholam Hossein Heidarpanah, known as Hossein the woodcarver, is one of the woodcarving masters of Abadeh.[10] In his childhood, he got acquainted with cartoons by reading the Golagha weekly newspaper and started drawing on his own, and received his first cartoon award in 2007 from Fars Provincial Cartoon Festival of ( Bread and Art ). Heidarpanah studied painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts at Yazd University.
He began his career as a cartoonist in 2008, uploading pieces online so that other Persian artists could provide feedback and help him to improve.[11] In 2010, he won the main award at the International Cartoon Festival in Iran with the main theme of "effort".[12]
In a decade of his activity, he has been able to win cartoon festival awards in Iran, Argentina,[13] Italy.,[14][15][16][17] Brazil,[18] Slovakia,[19] Brazil[20] Serbia[21] and Turkey
He has stated that he enjoys "the power of conveying the meaning to the audience in order to make them think within a single frame and sometimes shock them... Cartoon is my communicative device which lets me talk to the people of the world without knowing their languages."[11]
Mojtaba has been working as freelance cartoonist and Illustrator for many important magazines and newspapers and publishers in Iran like Ghanoon newspaper,[22][23][24] Jame Jam news paper, Farhikhtegan newspaper[25]