| General info : | | Edmond Kiraz, born Kirazian (25 August 1923, Cairo, Egypt – 11 August 2020) was an Egyptian-born French-Armenian cartoonist, painter, and illustrator.
Edmond Kirazian (or Kirazyan) was born in Cairo, and was of Armenian descent. He was named after French writer Edmond Rostand.
Kiraz started painting from an early age, and had apprenticed under Armenian artist Ashot Zorian. Kiraz began his career as a political cartoonist at age 17 (without formal artistic training) in Egypt. Kiraz later studied at the Nubarian National College in Cairo. He emigrated post-World War II to Paris.
In 1950 he created the comic strip, Line. In 1959, while he was working for the French magazine Jours de France, his boss, Marcel Dassault, had him move from politics to humor.
As time passed, Kiraz developed a distinctive and humorous pictorial style of representing women that he called Les Parisiennes: very thin, with long legs, small breasts, and a pouty face.
His cartoons are often not only humorous but slightly naughty or erotic, and since 1970 he had contributed regularly to Playboy magazine. | |
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| General info : | Edmond Kiraz, born Kirazian (25 August 1923, Cairo, Egypt – 11 August 2020) was an Egyptian-born French-Armenian cartoonist, painter, and illustrator.
Edmond Kirazian (or Kirazyan) was born in Cairo, and was of Armenian descent. He was named after French writer Edmond Rostand.
Kiraz started painting from an early age, and had apprenticed under Armenian artist Ashot Zorian. Kiraz began his career as a political cartoonist at age 17 (without formal artistic training) in Egypt. Kiraz later studied at the Nubarian National College in Cairo. He emigrated post-World War II to Paris.
In 1950 he created the comic strip, Line. In 1959, while he was working for the French magazine Jours de France, his boss, Marcel Dassault, had him move from politics to humor.
As time passed, Kiraz developed a distinctive and humorous pictorial style of representing women that he called Les Parisiennes: very thin, with long legs, small breasts, and a pouty face.
His cartoons are often not only humorous but slightly naughty or erotic, and since 1970 he had contributed regularly to Playboy magazine. | Edmond Kiraz, born Kirazian (born 25 August 1923 in Heliopolis, Cairo, Egypt – died 11 August 2020 (aged 96)) was an Egyptian-born French-Armenian cartoonist, painter, and illustrator.
Edmond Kirazian (or Kirazyan) was of Armenian descent. He was named after French writer Edmond Rostand.
Kiraz started painting from an early age, inspired by the cartoons of world famous David Low, and had apprenticed under Armenian artist Ashot Zorian. Kiraz began his career as a political cartoonist at age 17 (without formal artistic training) in Egypt. Kiraz later studied at the Nubarian National College in Cairo.
In 1946 Kiraz visited Paris for the first time, and stayed there around two years. In 1948 he returned to Cairo and held his first solo exhibition during June 1948 at gallery A.D.A.M.
In 1950 he created the comic strip, Line. In 1959, while he was working for the French magazine Jours de France, his boss, Marcel Dassault, had him move from politics to humor.
In 1952 Kiraz left Egypt for good. In Paris he published his first cartoons in La Bataille, then in Samedi-Soir, afterwards in France Dimanche and Issi Paris, etc.
As time passed, Kiraz developed a distinctive and humorous pictorial style of representing women that he called Les Parisiennes: very thin, with long legs, small breasts, and a pouty face.
His cartoons are often not only humorous but slightly naughty or erotic, and since 1970 he had contributed regularly to Playboy magazine. | |
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