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This category is about editorial cartoonists also known as political cartoonists from India. Pages in category "Indian editorial cartoonists" The following 77 pages are in this category, out of 77 total.
Rasipuram Krishnaswami Laxman [1] (24 October 1921 – 26 January 2015) was an Indian cartoonist, illustrator, and humorist. [2] He was best known for his creation The Common Man and for his daily cartoon strip, You Said It in The Times of India, which started in 1951.
He is considered the father of political cartooning in India. [1] He founded Shankar's Weekly, India's Punch in 1948. Shankar's Weekly also produced cartoonists like Abu Abraham, Ranga and Kutty, he closed down the magazine during the Emergency of 25 June 1975. From then on he turned to making children laugh and enjoy life.
Yesudasan received the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Indian Institute of Cartoonists in 2001. [7] In 2021, he won the Swadeshabimani-Kesari award, the highest honour given by the Government of Kerala for media persons, for his contributions to the cartoon and media sector. [2]
This is a list of editorial cartoonists of the past and present sorted by nationality. An editorial cartoonist is an artist, a cartoonist who draws editorial cartoons that contain some level of political or social commentary. The list is incomplete; it lists only those editorial cartoonists for whom a Wikipedia article already exists.
The Common Man is a cartoon character created by Indian author and cartoonist R. K. Laxman. For over a half of a century, the Common Man has represented the hopes, aspirations, troubles and perhaps even foibles of the average Indian, through a daily comic strip, You Said It in The Times of India. The comic was started in 1951. [1]
His first cartoon appeared in the Malayalam humor magazine Viswaroopam (edited by Sanjayan) in 1940. [2] Rao Sahib V. P. Menon, a relative of Kutty's father and a senior official in the British Imperial Secretariat (New Delhi) introduced him to the famous Indian cartoonist Shankar. [3]
Attupurathu Mathew Abraham (11 June 1924 – 1 December 2002), pen name Abu, was an Indian cartoonist, journalist, and author.In a career spanning 40 years, Abu Abraham worked for various national and international newspapers including The Bombay Chronicle, Shankar's Weekly, Blitz, Tribune, The Observer (1956–1966), The Guardian (1966–1969), and The Indian Express (1969–1981).