halisdokgoz

Personal Info

He was born in 1967 in Çorum (Turkey). He graduated from the Medical Faculty of 19 May University in 1989, and graduated from the Forensic Medicine Department of İstanbul Medical Faculty of Istanbul University in 1999. Currently, he is a full-time staff at the Department of Forensic Medicine, at Medical Faculty of Mersin University where he also works as a lecturer (Prof.Dr.). He has been drawing cartoon since 1985. His first cartoon was published in the “Kılçık” magazine in 1985. His consecutive works were published in the Gırgır, Limon, Çarşaf, Hıbır, Gümgüm, Akrep (Cypro), Hallo (Germany), ArteFacto (Spain) magazines, and Cumhuriyet, Bulvar, Bizim Gazete, Milliyet, BirGün, Radikal, Hürriyet and Sabah newspapers. The artist continued drawing cartoons for Kılçık, Tıp Dünyası, Sendrom, Hiç, Fesat, Homur and Hekim Forumu magazines.In 2015-2018, his cartoons were published daily at Hürriyet newspaper, Çukurova, at Metafor. His cartoons were published outside of Turkey, in countries such as Germany, Spain, Belgium, Greece, Romania, South Korea, Poland, Iran, Cyprus, Portugal, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Azerbaijan, India, Serbia, and China. He has entered a number of national and international competitions and was aworded various prizes. He has participated in many joint and group cartoon exhibitions. He had his first personal exhibition in 1991 at the Second Medical Fair in Ankara. In 1989 his first book “Where the sun doesn't enter” was published. His cartoon books “Lineal” was published in 2010 by Turkish Medical Association press. He draws medical illustrations besides his cartoons.