Turkey.
Turkey
1967
Turkish comics are called çizgi roman, and cartoons karikatür.
Suat Yalaz's Karaoğlan (1962) and Sezgin Burak's Tarkan (1967) are the core of its adventure-hero canon, and the humour weekly Gırgır, driven by Oğuz Aral, sold nearly a million copies a week in the 1970s.
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1967
1990s
Artists from Turkey in the archive.
Comics from Turkey in the archive.
Tarkan, the earliest comic from Turkey in the archive.
The decade when the most new comics from Turkey began.
çizgi roman
Turkey in 2 chapters
A short history you can leaf through. Click a page, use the arrow keys, or press Turn the page to read on.
Turkey.
2 chapters
1962
to 1969
Chapter 01
Adventure heroes
Suat Yalaz's Karaoğlan ran daily in Akşam from 3 January 1962 and had its own magazine from 1 April 1963, and Sezgin Burak's Tarkan followed in 1967.
1970
to today
Chapter 02
Humour weeklies and a museum
The humour weekly Gırgır, driven by Oğuz Aral, sold nearly a million copies a week in the 1970s. Istanbul's Karikatür ve Mizah Müzesi opened in 1975, closed in 1980 and reopened in 1989.
The comics to know
- Karaoğlan1962Suat Yalaz. Daily in Akşam from 3 January 1962.
- Tarkan1967 · comics characterSezgin Burak
- Gırgır1972 · magazineOğuz Aral. Humour weekly; nearly a million copies a week in the 1970s.
The people to know
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