Zehra Ömeroğlu

Zehra Ömeroğlu

Zehra Ömeroğlu was born in 1985. She graduated from Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences. She completed her master’s degree in Institute of Social Sciences/Business Administration. Her professional career as a cartoonist started in the magazine Bayan Yanı which started its publication as the March 8 supplement of Leman, then became world’s only satirical magazine that consisted mostly of female writers/cartoonists. She continued drawing in Leman, the oldest satirical comics magazine still being published in Turkey. She drew cartoons and comic strips for the magazines Gececi, Mağara, Tarama Ucu and many other cartoon/comic magazines. She still draws cartoons and stories in her column named "İçimdeki Hayvan” meaning “The Animal Inside Me" in Leman. In her cartoons, she usually deals with the absurdity of so-called seriousness in daily life, taboos, human psychology, various conflicts and frames of mind. She also has a book published in 2015. She is also a senior student in the department of Russian Language and Literature currently.