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Knockin' On Heavens Door

]]> I drew this comic strip for the 1st Golagha comedy film festival's bulletin. This work named "Knockin' On Heavens Door" -named after a song by Guns N' Roses- is about making a box office hit, indeed it's a funny guideline to make a movie.

This work was published December 2007 in Golagha Bi-weekly magazine, special issue of Golagha film festival.

The Secrets of the Cursed Valley

]]> 'The Secrets of the Cursed Valley or How to become Harry Potter?' is a comic strip about harry potter in iran. Here you can find a comic-review about the third Potter movie and in this page I have written something about the fourth movie.

This comic strip was published March 2006 in Bacheha Golagha weekly.

*'The Secrets of the Cursed Valley' is the name of a movie directed by iranian director, Ebrahim Golestan.

The Legend Of Zorro

]]> 'The Legend Of Zorro' is the sequel to 1998's 'The Mask of Zorro', which was itself based upon the character popularized by dozens of previous movies, several TV series, comic books, books, etc. This movie is directed by Martin Campbell and Catherine Zeta-Jones and Antonio Banderas stars in it.

This Comic Review was published in Iran Daily, December 2005.

Wallace and Grommit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

]]> This stunning animation is based on the famous characters named Wallace and Grommit. Wallace is an inventor and Grommit is his dog; his intellectual pet! Grommit reads newspapers and magazines and helps his owner to solve the problems.
The movie (stop-motion animation) is directed by Nick Park during five years after his first feature named The Chicken Run (2000). Park has got three Oscar prizes for his short movies.

This comic review was published in Iran Daily November 2005.

Chocolate Lovers

]]> 'Charlie and the chocolate factory' is one of the best movies for kids I've ever seen, especially in recent years. The movie is directed by Tim Burton (do you remember Big Fish?) and is based on a famous novel by Roald Dahl with the same name.
Johnny Depp plays Willy Wonka, the owner of the biggest chocolate factory that is big secret also! No one has entered the factory after Wonka reopened it and none of the workers was invited to work again. But who are making these chocolates?

Five children, who have found the Golden tickets, can enter the factory and be the guests of Willy Wonka. Charlie is one of them...

This comic review was published in Iran Daily August 2005.

Iranian Cinema

]]> This comic strip had a long way to be published! At first I did it in two pages and more frames for an unborn comic magazine named 'Parasite' but the magazine never get published. So I decided to prepare it special issue of Jam-e-Jam daily for New Year (norouz). But Daily's managers decided to publish their special issue in fewer pages, so this work didn't published again and another comic strip of mine was chosen.
At least, after about two months I edited and colored it (the first version was in black and white for Parasite) for Bacheha Golagha and fortunately it was published April 2005.

It's about some kind of movies and genres in Iranian version of cinema which is not similar to American or European one. For example in Iran, we have a new born genre in cinema named 'Managera' that the movies of this kind should lead to heaven! As a cinema lover, I can not tolerate about 90 percents of the movies belong to this genre!

Dead and alive assassin's society

]]> Sin City is a real masterpiece! Believe me. It's a great movie based on the graphic novels by Frank Miller and is directed by Miller and Robert Rodriguez.
Bruce Willis, Elijah Wood, Jessica Alba, Brittany Murphy, Benicio Del Toro, Clive Owen and Rosario Dawson are some of the actors and actresses who star in this film.
I have written about this memorable movie in my English weblog and Persian.

This comic review was published in Iran Daily, May 2005.

To Kill a Mocking Bird

]]> To be a cartoonist and caricaturist is not very easy! It's so difficult! Believe me!
This comic strip which was published in Bacheha Golagha (Persian satirical weekly for children) march 2005 is on this subject.

The comic's title refers to a classic movie starring Gregory Peck.

Hey, Frank, where the hell are you?

]]> 'Catch me if you can' is directed by Steven Spielberg - one of the top three Hollywood directors including him, James Cameron and George Lucas - and tells the real story of Frank Abagnale, Jr. Who has worked as a doctor, a lawyer and as a co-pilot for a major airline, all before his 18th birthday. He was also a brilliant forger whose skill gave him his first real claim to fame. At the age of 17, Frank became the most successful bank robber in the history of the United States. FBI Agent Carl Hanratty had made it his prime mission to capture Frank and bring him to justice, but Frank is always one step ahead of him, baiting him to continue the chase.

Tom Hanks and Leonardo DiCaprio have starred in the movie. This comic review was published march 2005 in Iran Daily.

Some like it hot

]]> How do you begin New Year? This comic strip is on Iranian New Year named Noruz and some ways for beginning it. I drew this work for a special issue of Jamejam Daily and was published march 2005.
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A fish, a big one

]]> Big Fish is a shining and memorable movie by one of my favorite directors; Tim Burton who had made nice movies such as Edward Scissorhands and Batman. The story is based on a novel with the same name and is about a boy and his father. The boy's dad - named Edward Bloom - used to tell unbelievable stories and tales for everyone specially his son, but Will - the boy - does not believe them and calls his father 'Liar'.
Will goes to another city and does not meet his daddy for three years. One day his mother calls him and wants him to comeback home because the father is dying. Will returns home and remembers all of his father's fantasies, except one of them.

As I said this movie is directed by American director Tim Burton and Evan McGregor, Helena Bonham Carter, Billy Crudup, Albert Finney and DeVito have played the roles.
This comic review is on Big Fish and was published in Iran Daily march 2005.
[Read more about Big Fish in my English weblog]

I met your daddy last night, Ayda! -1

]]> I like this work very much. It's a comic strip on a movie named 'Dishab babato didam, Ayda' (means 'I met your daddy last night, Ayda!') directed by a famous Iranian movie maker Rasoul SadrAmeli and was one of the movies participating in Iran Cinema Competition in 23rd Fajr film festival 2005.
The movie tells a story of a girl named Ayda. One day Ayda's friend tells her that she has met Ayda's father with a woman; not her mother. At first Ayda doesn't believe it but after some days she tries to find out her dad's mystery.

I drew this comic strip before watching the movie in festival and the story of this work is not exactly similar to the original movie.
This comic strip was published in special issue of Bacheha Golagha weekly on Fajr film festival, February 2005.

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His Toys

]]> This work is a comic review on 'Toy Story 2'; a 3D animated movie by Pixar and Disney. The first part of this story was released 1995 and was on a boy named Andy who has a lot of toys. He likes Woody - a cowboy toy - more than the others, but one day Andy's mother gives him a new puppet; a spaceman named Buzz. Buzz becomes Andy's favorite toy and Woody tries to kill Buzz…
In the 2nd part there is no war between Woody and Buzz, but they have a new enemy; a toy man named Al who steals woody and tries to send it to a museum Japan.
Toy Story 2 was released 1999 and was the third movie by Pixar and Disney and directed by John Lasseter, the first film director. After this movie they made 'Monsters Inc.', 'Finding Nemo' and 'The Incredibles'. This summer the last pixar-disney animation will be released, its name is 'The Cars'.

This comic review was published in Iran Daily November 2004.

Once upon a time; Football

]]> This comic strip is on Iranian football, players, coaches and sport journalists. You can find and read so much news and gossips on football in sport dailies and magazines everywhere.

This work was published in Bacheha…Golagha weekly (satirical weekly for children) January 2005.