علیرضا پاکدل

Alireza Pakdel born and raised in Mashhad , Iran 1981. He has been working as freelance cartoonist and Illustrator for many important magazines and newspapers and publishers in Iran since 1994. He has also worked as an art director in weekly comic publication named Palakhmoon for two years. He has managed the Caricature and Cartoon group of Mashhad Art Center for many years.
He is an international artist who has won more than 150 international awards at domestic and foreign festivals and has also exhibited his artworks many times in group and solo exhibitions. He has also worked as a character designer in creating animation projects . Alireza Pakdel aims to create clever ideas that affects on the world ; Ideas such as the destruction of the environment by humans, the creation of peace around the world, gender discrimination, poverty and the social issues that people always face. In 2020, with the beginning of the Corona virus pandemic and general quarantine, he created the most cartoons in the field of giving hope to people around the world and appreciating the medical staff, which was considered by many important organizations and media around the world. Therefore, the most important feature of his cartoon works can be considered as sympathy with the international community in the face of social problems, which is depicted with subtle ideas. During his artistic life, Alireza Pakdel has created more than 500 Caricatures of world political, scientific and national figures with his unique style. Sharp forms and minimal graphics as well as one-eyed characters are features of his Caricatures.