Background
Yilmaz was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Turkish physicist Hüseyin Yılmaz (author of the Yilmaz theory of gravitation) and Karen Carlson.
Yilmaz was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Turkish physicist Hüseyin Yılmaz (author of the Yilmaz theory of gravitation) and Karen Carlson.
He has two older brothers. The "" series began in 2002 as a series of animated comics that were shown at film festivals. Each video in the "" series shows a series of static cartoons, which appear gradually as if being drawn by an invisible hand.
Yilmaz" technique is inspired by the French documentary “The Mystery of Picasso” (1956), which similarly shows Picasso"s paintings appearing from the other side.
Yilmaz writes, draws, films, edits, and narrates all of the "" videos. He often recounts personal anecdotes and observations and discusses his views on interpersonal relationships, society and human behavior.
His videos are told from a rather pessimistic viewpoint and tend to have a sarcastic undertone. In 2003, Yilmaz began to sell DVDs that contained some of his short comic films.
Along with the Digital Video Disc came the first print version of the "".
Over the next six years, Yilmaz published three more books, as his fan base grew to thousands. His first official book, "Sunny Side Down", was published by Simon & Schuster in 2009. In recent years Yilmaz gained a large fan base around his animated comics on YouTube.
He uses this online popularity to promote his books and DVDs, which are sold from his personal website.
Yilmaz made appearances in New York for events such as Rooftop Film Festival, performing live readings from his books The "" series has accumulated over 46 million views on YouTube on his channel AgentXPQ as of April 2015.
In October 2010, his comic "God" was featured on Franco-German television Network arte. In December 2010 "A Few of my Highschool Teachers" aired on Showtime.
I (2003)
II (2004)
The 7 Habits Of Highly Negative People (2006)
Sunny Side Down (2009)
The Doom Room (2013).
