Biography

Murat Mıhçıoğlu was born in Kayseri, Turkey in 1972. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Istanbul in 1998 following an education in English Literature at the University of Istanbul, all the while contributing as a polyglot to local and international publications as writer, critic, translator, editor and artist. His involvement in comics began to bear more serious fruits after he founded Studio Rodeo in 2004, an initiative to create and curate independent material freely, which, among other projects, also gave birth to Comicstanbul, an anthology of comics dedicated to the city, featuring works of masters like Charles Vess, Roberto Diso, Dany and Zograf. Currently, Mihcioglu is also focused on scripting movies and writing short stories, and has won several awards in the past years, one of which is for best sci-fi movie screenplay.