We approximately meet caricatures reflecting in current press, special satiric magazines in the middle of XIX century firstly in Azerbaijan.
And at last, the weekly satiric magazine named “Molla Nasraddin” came into light on April 7, 1906 in Azerbaijan firstly in the East. This was a great event. As the originator, editor and publisher of the magazine and the prominent writer Jalil Mammadguluzadeh said: The life itself has created this magazine playing great role in the development of social and cultural conscious of Azeri people. Life being full of social contradictions put duties both in front of literature and descriptive art. “Molla Nasraddin” magazine creating great school in Azerbaijan literature also caused the creation of new school in our descriptive art.
Directly, illustrational magazines like “Bahlul” (1912, “Zanbur” (1909), “Ari” (1910), “Mirat” (1911), “Baraban” (1912), “Kalniyyat” (1912), “Lak-lak”(1914), “Tuti”(1914), “Mazali”(1914), “Babayi-Amir” (1915), “Sheypur”(1918), “Tartan-partan”(1918), “Mashal” (1919) began to be published as a result of the reflection of “Molla Nasraddin”. “Molla Nasraddin” magazine published for more periods had been published since 1932 with certain pauses. During these years prominent artists such as Oskar Shmerling, Iozef Rotter, Azim Azimzadeh, and then B.Telingator (Beno), Khalil Musayev, Jabibayov, B. Sayid, N. Mammadov, M. Aliyev and others participated in the magazine.
