About
My inspiration to get into cartooning was this little print ad for Joy ice creams (1986/87, India), with a bunch of cartoon looking people (excluding me, of course) in it. I practiced those figures, over and over. And Tada!, here I am, doing my part of adding to the collection of whatever-you-want-to-call Cartoons.
And when I won my first ever prize in a cartooning contest (my second inspiration) at the IIT Madras “Margi Gras” festival, the first thing I bought with the prize money was a Joy ice cream. Needless to say, I paid my dues. This is what I call “you do the crime, you buy the ice cream.”
Perhaps related, or perhaps not, I was born on the same day (not the year) as the opening of the first modern Olympic Games in Athens (1896). Does that explain my obsession with Olympics & sports, Olympic cartoons and sports cartoons? I don’t think so.
Till date, I did not know about your inspiration to get into cartooning.
Joy Ice cream it is!!!
Yup, Joy Ice cream. Do you remember that brand? And of course, there were many cartoonists that inspired me: RK Laxman, Mario Miranda, Sreedhar, Gary Larson, and many more N. American and British cartoonists.
Hi! I love your cartoons. I am a consultant working with government and non-profit organizations. I help them to become more effective in what they do and how to measure their effectiveness. I also teach leadership skills such as negotiation and teambuilding. I especially like your arm wrestling with the feather cartoon and would like to use it in a presentation. Do you charge a royalty for using your cartoons?
thanks!
Karen
Hello Karen, thank you for your compliments. I’m happy that you enjoyed my cartoons. Feel free to use that arm wrestling cartoon in your presentation. I wouldn’t charge you for that. In this case, sharing a little smile/laughter with your audience itself is a payment.
Just curious – which city are you from?
Cheers
Chakri