Engin Ergönültaş

Engin Ergönültaş is a cartoonist, comic book artist and writer who is one of the important names of Turkish humor magazine publishing. He was born in Istanbul in 1951 and graduated from Istanbul University, Department of Sociology.

In the 1970s, he both wrote and drew the stories of characters such as Zalim Şevki and Kelek Osman in Gırgır magazine. In the same years, his cartoons were published in the Politics and Milliyet newspapers. He published and directed Mikrop magazine with his friends from Gırgır circle. He also wrote essays for cultural magazines on topics such as minibus culture, arabesque and humor.

Magazines, cinema and novels

He worked in France for a while; His comic stories appeared in French comic magazines. He was the manager of the humor magazine Pişmiş Kelle between 1990 and 2001. In the 1990s, he turned to cinema, wrote scripts and tried directing; He worked as an art director in Atıf Yılmaz's film Hayallerim, Aşkım and Sen.

His first novel, Minare Shadow, which he worked on for five years, was published by İletişim Yayınları in March 2013. In August 2015, he started writing for Yumurtasuz humor magazine.