Bozorgmehr Hosseinpour
Bozorgmehr Hosseinpour (; born in 1976) is an Iranian cartoonist and art director. He holds a bachelor of painting from the Azad University of Tehran (1378). Early life. Bozorgmehr Hosseinpour got introduced to the magical world of paint and brush, through his father’s art pieces. As a kid he was always surrounded by his father’s art works, which made his childhood memories so colorful and the house itself into a museum filled with tableaus and statues etc. As he grew up, Bozorgmehr was receiving education in calligraphy, painting, drawing as well as miniatures. However, it was only  in elementary school when he started creating caricatures of his school bus driver on the way home, not exactly knowing that he was creating pieces called, caricature. After a while he started finding his own path using his magnificent and critical mind. At the age of 12 he published an inner family comic book. A year later, after his work got published by a magazine, he got hired by Kumarth Saberi the editor of Gol Agha, which was a prestigious and well known magazine at a time. He has been influenced and fascinated by the works of Gauguin, Vincent van  Gogh and other impressionists which led to studying painting at the Azad University of Tehran in 1994. Throughout his cooperation with Kambiz Derambakhsh, and Ahmad Arabani his Artistic character got evolved. Bozorgmehr Hosseinpour is the Editor in Chief of the chizna online news website, at the present time.