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ABOUT DEAR DEER ABOUT THE CHARACTERS To be continued. . . 1392 ‫ دادرم‬4 ‫ جمعه‬- 1249 ‫ شماره‬/ ‫سال متسیب‬
I started drawing Dear Deer in 1999 as a package with http://www.dariushcartoon.com
25 color cards. I decided to continue it as a comic series.
When it reached 100 panels (each of them was in one Dear Deer
panel and were not cartoon strips) I took it to HUMOUR
& CARICATURE magazine. It’s a monthly magazine He thinks about everything around
in Iran that JAVAD ALIZADEH, the famous Iranian him and would like to philosophies
cartoonist, is the editor of. He accepted and Dear Deer all things. He like physics as much
became a permanent page in the magazine from 2002. I as playing music.
changed that to a comic strip collection (the format with
a short series of panel that communicate a brief story) I Sheep
published a book containing the first100 panels of Dear
Deer in 2007. It was a successful experience and gave The best friend of dear deer, actually
me the motivation to promote it as an international comic the only friend! He doesn’t talk
strip. I’m still working on now, each day with a new story unless he has to. Sometimes he
... And now, you can find them in THE NORTHERN STAR is more than you’d expect from a
magazine in Canada: www.northernstar-online.com sheep but most of the time he is just
a sheep!

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