Note

Circa 1960's. There is age related browning of the paper. Overall condition stable.

Description

Rasipuram Krishnaswami Laxman was an Indian cartoonist and illustrator. He was born in Mysore in 1921. His father was a headmaster at a local high school. His elder brother was renowned novelist R.K. Narayan.

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. His first full-time job was as a political cartoonist for The Free Press Journal in Mumbai, where he worked with Bal Thackeray. Later, he joined The Times of India, where he worked for over 5 decades. He became popular for 'The Common Man' character, which featured in the cartoon strip ’You Said it’.

He was conferred with the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature and Creative Communication Arts in 1984 and the Padma Vibhushan in 2004. He passed away in 2015.