462 Cultural Life
 
Cultural Life 463  
 
   
 
 
  
  
 

Culture and Tourism were exhibited in almost all provinces of the country during all commemorative and festive days of 2006 in order to enliven the cultural and artistic life and to inspirit the people during special days.

 
 
Cartoons: During the early days of the Republic, Cemal Nadir Güler and Ramiz Gökçe were the two most renowned artists in the Turkish art of cartooning. The longest lasting humor magazine of the time “Akbaba” (Vulture), which was published by Yusuf Ziya Ortaç, displayed various quests and left its mark on the period with its cadre of powerful essayists and cartoonists.
 
Along with the transition to a multiparty system and the new freedoms following World War II, humor experienced a change in characteristics as well. “Marko Paşa”, which was published by Sabahattin Ali and Aziz Nesin, and included cartoonist Mustafa Uykusuz, was the most prominent humor magazine of the period.
 
Cartoonists of the 1950s generation, who brought a new concept to the art of cartooning, developed a cartoon humor not based on essays or words. They spread their new concept of cartooning not only by their work but also by collective exhibitions, articles, seminars and the humor magazines they published, such as “41 Buçuk” (41 and a Half), “Tef” (Tambourine), “Dolmuş” (Shared Taxi) and “Taş Karikatür” (Stone Cartoon). Turhan Selçuk, Nehar Tüblek, Ali Ulvi Ersoy, Eflatun Nuri Koç, Selma Emiroğlu, Semih Balcıoğlu, Bedri Koraman, Altan Erbulak, Mustafa Eremektar, Sinan Bıçakçıoğlu, Ferruh Doğan, Tonguç Yaşar, Suat Yalaz, Yalçın Çetin and Oğuz Aral were the famed cartoonists of the period. Cafer Zorlu, Zeki Beyner, Tan Oral, Nezih Danyal, Ercan Akyol, Erdoğan Bozok, Orhan Özdemir and Selçuk Demirel,  who  became  prominent artists between 1960 and
 

 
 
 
  
  1970, embraced the cartooning concept of the 1950s generation and carried it on with the contributions of their own. In the 1970s, young cartoonists working together for the weekly humor magazine “Gırgır” (Fun), managed by Oğuz Aral, developed a trendy type of humor based on words, ridiculing mainly persons and events created by awry urbanization also with the contributions by Tekin Aral.

İsmail Gülgeç, Kamil Masaracı, Salih Memecan, Semih Poroy, Behiç Ak, Piyale Madra, Hasan Kaçan, Ergün Gündüz, Latif Demirci, Haslet Soyöz and Kemal Gökhan   Gürses   have      been
 
The work awarded with the
first place in “Cemal Nadir
Young Cartoonists” contest /
Asiye Zeynep Okur
 
criticizing and interpreting the change of values that came about in society after 1980 in a manner that combined words and essays with their drawings.
 
The Center for Research and Application of the Art of Cartooning, an affiliate of the Anatolian University established at the end of 2004, opened a museum with an archive of nearly 2,000 works of art. Anatolian University is the only one of its kind in Turkey with such a research center and a museum. In addition to exhibiting of works in its archive, the museum has become a symbol of Eskişehir with 20 private exhibits of well-known Turkish and foreign cartonists since its opening.