Navied Mahdavian

About Navied

Navied Mahdavian has been a contributing cartoonist to The New Yorker since 2018, where his cartoons and comics appear regularly. He is also the author of the graphic memoir, This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America. He has received fellowships from MacDowell (2022), La Napoule Art Foundation (2022), and elsewhere. His cartoons have also appeared in Wired, Reader's Digest, Alta Online, Private Eye, and American Bystander, and in the cartoon collections, The Rejection Collection (2022) and Send Help! (2021).

Before becoming a cartoonist, Mahdavian taught fifth grade, where he learned most of his jokes.

The best and longest lasting learning happens when you discover something yourself. As an educator, my job is not to tell my students what they need to know; instead, I guide them through class readings, analysis of exemplar texts, and conversation to connect the dots on their own.