Dr. Gürbüz Doğan Ekşioğlu has been drawing caricatures since 1977 with extensive worldwide coverage and has won twenty-seven international prizes and forty-four national awards. Dr. Ekşioğlu received the Sedat Simavi Plastic Arts award in 1997 and his work had been published as the cover for The New Yorker Magazine and the Forbes. Two of his arts printed on the UNICEF postcards are being sold worldwide and he has had a special success with his caricature published in the New Yorker cover for Sept. 11, 2011 anniversary edition.