EXTRACTS: Illustrators issue 29 © 2019 The Book Palace (96 PAGES in Full edition)

83 Ersin Karabulut Some of the darkest humour in modern comics comes from this Turkish cartoonist who varies his graphic styles to match the medium he works in. Now working primarily in the digital domain, we caught up with him recently for this insightful look into his work. An artist of many different graphic styles whose comic stories are at once Kafkaesque, grim and darkly funny, Ersin Karabulut began his career at the age of 16 in Istanbul, Turkey. He worked for various weekly and monthly magazines and was an illustrator and storyboard artist for major advertising companies while studying graphic design at Mimar Sinan University. In 2007, he co-founded with a group of artist friends the award-winning Uykusuz , one of the most prestigious weekly humour magazines in Turkey. Seven books of his comic compilations and graphic novels have been published so far, including the latest ‘Contes Ordinaires d’une Société Résignée’ — a series of short, bleak and darkly humorous comic tales dealing with our society and the human condition. The latter appeared in January ABOVE AND BELOW: Fluide Glacial Horror special Cover , digital, 2018. Fluide Glacial is a humour magazine, much in the vein of MAD, created by cartoonist Marcel Gotlib. For many decades it appeared only in black and white but, as of the beginning of this millennium, it is entirely in colour. FACING PAGE: Contes Ordinaires d’une Société Résignée (Ordinary Stories of a Resigned Society) , digital, 2018. Cover for the French book published by Fluide Glacial collecting some of Ersin’s stories. © Fluide Glacial