Rk laxman short biography

Indian Cartoonist

Not to be confused with K. Laxman.

In this Indian name, the name Rasipuram Krishnaswami is a patronymic, and the person should be referred to by the given name, Laxman.

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.^[3]

R. K. Laxman started his career as a part-time cartoonist, working mostly for local newspapers and magazines. While as a college student, he illustrated his older brother R. K. Narayan's stories in The Hindu.^[4] His first full-time job was as a political cartoonist for The Free Press Journal in Mumbai. Later, he joined The Times of India, and became famous for The Common Man character, which turned out to be the turning point in Laxman's life.

Birth and

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The influence of David Low

When he was in school, he started illustrating his brother, R. K. Narayan’s short stories for The Hindu. He also illustrated a special issue for a college magazine, which caught the attention of M. Sivaram, the editor of Koravanji, a new satirical magazine in Bangalore. He called upon his services after seeing Laxman’s work on the cover. Koravanji This was inspired by Punch— A magazine where cartoonist David Low was a frequent contributor. Laxman was inspired by David Low’s cartoons since his middle school years, when he accidentally found his cartoons in a newspaper at home. For many years, he would follow the style of Low’s cartoons, the kind of sketching that was involved, the satire and minimal dialogue.

Nala Ponnappa writes in the Economic and Political Weekly that it was only Laxman’s early cartoons which would bore similarities to Low. it can be argued that Low’s style, in fact, was visible in Laxman’s work all his life. This series, ho

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Life and times of RK Laxman

NEW DELHI: RK Laxman was born in Mysore. His father was a headmaster and Laxman was the youngest of six sons. His older brother is the famous novelist R K Narayan.
Laxman was engrossed bygd the illustrations in magazines such as The kust Magazine, slag, Bystander, bred World and Tit-Bits, even before he could read. Soon he was drawing on his own, on the floors, walls and doors of his house and doodling caricatures of his teachers at school. Praised bygd a teacher for his drawing of a peepal leaf, he began to think of himself as an artist in the making.
Another early influence on Laxman were the cartoons of the world-renowned British cartoonist, Sir David Low (whose signature he misread as "cow" for a long time) that appeared now and then in The Hindu. Laxman notes in his autobiography, The Tunnel of Time, “I drew objects that caught my eye outside the window of my room – the dry twigs, leaves and lizard-like creatures crawling about, the titta