Selma Emiroğlu
Selma Emiroğlu Aykan | |
|---|---|
| Born | Selma Emiroğlu 17 May 1928 |
| Died | October 4, 2011 (aged 83) |
| Nationality | Turkish |
| Occupation | Cartoonist |
Notable work | Kara Kedi Çetesi |
Selma Emiroğlu Aykan (17 May 1928 – 4 October 2011) was the first female cartoonist in Turkey. She was also an opera singer.
Life[]
She was born in İstanbul on 17 May 1928. She studied Üsküdar American Academy, but before graduation, she left the school and entered the Conservatoire of İstanbul Municipality.[1]
In 1963, she married to Aydın Aykan and moved to Berlin, West Germany. She gave birth to a daughter named Aylin. She died on 4 October 2011 in Tutzing, Germany.[2]
Cartoonist career[]
During her childhood, she was fond of drawing. Her mother sent some of her drawings to Cemal Nadir Güler, a renowned cartoonist of the 1940s. Her first cartoon appeared on the Amcabey periodical of Güler as early as 1943. When Doğan Kardeş, the children's periodical began to be published by , the founder of Yapı Kredi Bank, she began drawing for the publication.[3]
She created the funnies Kara Kedi Çetesi ("The Black Cat Gang"). In 1949, when the Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru sent an elephant to Turkey as a present for Turkish children, Emiroğlu drew a welcome cartoon on the cover page of Doğan Kardeş.[4]
Music[]
She was one of the sopranos of the İstanbul Opera. She played the leading role in La Traviata in İstanbul. While in Germany, she concentrated more on music.[3]
References[]
- 1928 births
- Artists from Istanbul
- Turkish women cartoonists
- Turkish female comics artists
- 20th-century Turkish women opera singers
- Turkish expatriates in Germany
- 2011 deaths