Erdil Yaşaroglu was born in 1971 in Istanbul. After graduating from Kadıköy Anatolian High School, he graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Sculpture at Mimar Sinan University.

 

He got involved in professional caricature in the 90s. Throughout these years, Erdil has won nearly 30 awards from both local and international caricature competitions he participated in. First, he started working at Güneş Newspaper and then created the "Komikaze" column in Limon and Leman magazines.

 

Also, in these years, he wrote various scripts for TV shows, wrote plays and gave lessons on caricature at Boğaziçi and Bilgi Universities.

 

In 2002, he founded "Penguen" magazine with his friends. They then went on to publish "Lombak", "Kemik", and "Hayvan" magazines.

 

In 2010, he got into the Guinness World Records book, drawing the world's largest caricature with a size of 12,000 square meters.

 

In 2014, he published the first humour magazine for children, "Süper Penguen".

 

He became a co-producer on the animated movie "The Bad Cat" in 2016.

 

His 19 books, published as Komikaze, sold over 1 million copies.

 

He joined sculpture exhibitions in Turkey and abroad.

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In 2022, he played the character of Professor Gunhan in the movie 3000 Years Of Longing, directed by George Miller and starring Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba.

 

Nowadays, he is involved with his keynotes entitled "Backstage Of Humor" and "Brain Pain", which explore the backstory of humour, thinking techniques and alternative ways of looking at life.

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He is currently drawing for the "Süper Penguen" magazine and continues to make sculptures in his studio in Istanbul.