Ivan Maximov

Born November 19, 1958 in a family of physicists. Father Leonid Aleksandrovich Maksimov is a Soviet and Russian physicist, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, professor at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. Mother Ksenia Alexandrovna Razumova (born 1931) - Russian Soviet experimental physicist, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, twice winner of the USSR State Prize; specialist in the field of nuclear physics.
He began to draw since childhood, together with his sister.
He worked as a photographer at the Institute of Biophysics of the Academy of Medical Sciences, as an engineer at the Institute of Space Research, studied at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, at the Higher Courses for Scriptwriters and Directors.

In the early 90s, he created a logo for the Dendy game console - an elephant.
From 2000 to 2001 - a cartoonist for the daily newspaper Vremya Novostei
Since 2002 teacher of directing at the school-studio SHAR (Moscow).
In 2003, he took part in the development of the computer game "Full Pipe".
September 10, 2009 - the first solo exhibition of Ivan Maksimov "The world where there are no adults" [3].
Since 2011 teacher of directing at his author's school Pitermultart (St. Petersburg).
In 2011-2012 he worked as illustrations for the Moscow News newspaper.[2]
March 11, 2014 Maksimov, using crowdfunding for the first time, began raising funds for a new cartoon "Bench" on the website Planeta.ru