I was born in 1950. I spent my childhood years in a seaside village on the coast of the Bosphorus. During these years, I collected mussels off a pier, which sparked a passion in me for the blue beyond. I remember my first drawings on my room’s wooden walls with bits of coal. In my late teens I found myself painting on the pavements of distant lands, going as far as France and Britain. I drew on whatever I got my hands on and after a while I was painting on canvases. When I reached the age of 21, I realized that I could do nothing else but draw. I began my career with various projects including drawing children’s stories and even creating art for spice products. These were hard times. I met Oğuz Aral in 1973 by pure chance and took up drawing cartoon strips. I worked with the Gırgır and Fırt Magazine right from beginning to end. For a while I wrote short stories and designed magazine covers, After 1980 I focused mainly on cartoon strips. When GırGır and Fırt went out of business I started working for Avni, Hıbır and Joker Magazines. After this period, I wrote and drew short stories in graphic novel format for Resimli Roman Magazine for a short time.

I had been drawing graphic novels incessantly for fifteen years and wanted open my sails with to other winds, so I proceeded with illustrations and masks. However, a book which I read many years later got me frantically captured by a strong urge to set aside my promise of never turning back to graphic novels. I thus embarked on the task of adapting İhsan Oktay Anar’s novel “The Atlas of Misty Continents” into graphics, which took me five years and was finally published in 2015. As of now, I’m still indulged with masks and illustrations. I am a married man blessed with a son, and that is all there is to it.