There were no computer games in my childhood. Only our imaginations… We used to conquer castles and save princess with our wooden swords. Our heros were from historical Turkish movies and comics. We used to be Kara Murat or Malkoçoglu (staring Cuneyt Arkin). These movies usually were setting in same places: Yedikule (Fortress of Seven Towers) or Rumeli Hisari…
I love the Princes’ Islands because motor vehicles are not permitted. You see only horse drawns. So there is no traffic noise or air pollution.
However, I am worry for poor horses that carry heavy loads or fat people. When I go to the Island I always prefer to walk under pine trees instead of taking
horse drawns.
Bonbon is a children’s magazine
for Turkish American kids.
I did an illustration for
it’s August issue cover.
When I was little there was a book at home. It had colorful space and Moon landing pictures. Even if I couldn’t read it but I enjoyed looking at and drawing them on my paper. I also dreamed to be an astronaut when I grow up. Years later, I couldn’t reach my childhood dream but I continued drawing pictures. This little space book illustrations are for a science magazine for kids. Who knows, maybe some of little readers become an astronaut and they remember my illustrations in space…
New books I illustrated came up from Compass Publishing with MP3 CDs:
Doctor Dolittle, the man who can communicate with animals by Hugh Lofting
Grimm Fairy Tales, including Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White and Seven Dwarfs, bearskin and Rapunzel by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
The Wind in the Willow, a crazy Frog and his friends the Rat, Mole and Badger by Kenneth Grahame
