Mojtaba Heidarpanah

Mojtaba Heidarpanah (Persian: مجتبی حیدرپناه‎; born 6 َApril 1990 in Abadeh) is an Iranian cartoonist, illustrator, painter, character designer and animator.

Early life

Heidarpanah studied painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts at Yazd University.

Career

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. In 2010, he won the main award at the International Cartoon Festival in Iran with the main theme of "effort".

Heidarpanah's works have been published in national newspapers and magazines, and have been exhibited in more than 100 countries. 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."

Recognition

• Special diploma on the Int'l Cartoon Festival of Jiaxing, China (2010)
• Frist Prize on the Frist Int'l Cartoon Festival of North Khorasan , Iran(2010)
• Third Prize on the 11th Int'l Cartoon Competition in SOKOBANJA, Serbia (2012)
• Special Prize on the 45th Int`l Cartoon Competition in Umoristi a Marostica, Italy (2013).
• Special Diploma on the 6th International Cartoon Contest UrziceiI, Romania (2013).
• Special Prize on the 30th Int`l Cartoon Competition in Aydin Dogan, Turkey (2013)
• Second Prize on the 20th International Visual Arts Festival for Young Artists. IRAN (2013)
• Frist Prize on the 2th International Contest of Social Illustrations , Argentina (2013).
• Second Prize  on the 31th Int`l Cartoon Competition in Aydin Dogan (2014)
• Special Prize on 8th International Cartoon Contest, Mexico (2016)
• Special Prize of the  8th "La Ciudad de las"International cartoon festival/ (2016)
• Special Prize Of "ACCES" Association Of The HumoDeva (2015)
• Special Prize International Competition Brain Sneezing Slovakia (2016)
• Special Prize of XXIV International Festival of Satire and Humor (2016)
• Finalists  Of The International Cartoon Kid Contest/Italy (2016)
• Third Prize International Cartoon Festival Olense Kartoenale  Belgium (2016)
•   Special Prize of the 43 th International Festival of Caricature and Cartoon Piracicaba (2016)
• Golden prize of the 41st International Cartoon Festival  LIE Championship /Italy (2017)