[2] Kiraz started painting from an early age, and had apprenticed under Armenian artist Ashot Zorian.
[2] Kiraz began his career as a political cartoonist at age 17 (without formal artistic training) in Egypt.
[3] In 1959, while he was working for the French magazine Jours de France, his boss, Marcel Dassault, had him move from politics to humor.
As time passed, Kiraz developed a distinctive and humorous pictorial style of representing women that he called Les Parisiennes: very thin, with long legs, small breasts, and a pouty face.
His cartoons are often not only humorous but slightly naughty or erotic, and since 1970 he had contributed regularly to Playboy magazine.