CARTOONISTS

WHEN FOR A CARTOONIST A SURFACE NEEDS ASIAN PAINTS – R.K. Laxman, best known for The Common Man and cartoon strip, You Said It

Struggling for an idea, smoking for inspiration

He loved to draw objects that caught his eye outside the window of his room. Collected in The Distorted Mirror (2003), he published short stories, essays, and travel articles. He developed an affinity for drawing at an early age. R.K. Laxman, born 1921 in Mysuru (India), was cartoonist who created daily comic strip, which chronicled Indian life and politics through the eyes of the common person https://www.scoopwhoop.com/laxman-cartoons-prove-his-genius/. There are legends about what Asian Paints – a small Indian-owned business – and the cartoonist who played a key role in making that happen was. In 1954, he created Gattu, a popular mascot for Asian Paints.

His cartoons, such as into the Tamil film Kamaraj, have appeared in Hindi films. His comic strip series, usually arranged horizontally, was designed as a narrative sequence. R.K. Laxman https://thediplomat.com/2016/01/my-my-whats-happening-to-my-country-remembering-r-k-laxman-1921-2015/ had think and draw a bulbous-nosed bespectacled observer, dressed in a dhoti, a traditional garment worn by men in India, who served as a point-of-view character for readers. He also wrote the novel The Hotel Riviera, and an autobiography, The Tunnel of Time.

While at college, R.K. Laxman https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2018/dec/18/pm-releases-book-on-renowned-cartoonist-r-k-laxman-1913245.html had illustrated stories by his novelist brother in a Hindu newspaper, also turning to creating political cartoons for local newspapers. In 1951, he create You Said It, a special common person, witty and sarcastic, fulled by his own and Indians outlook. He was first married to a Bharatanatyam dancer and film actor, and after their divorce, he married his niece. The couple had a son Srinivas. In 2003, he suffered a stroke that left him paralysed, and died in in Pune in 2015, at the age of 93.

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