Ekanath Padmanabhan Unny is an Indian political cartoonist.
He was born in Palakkad, Kerala. He studied physics at a university in Kerala.[1]
His first cartoon was published in Shankar's Weekly in 1973. Upon sending some cartoons to The Hindu, the editor Gopalan Kasturi offered him to join full-time. Unny left his job as a bank official to start his career as a professional cartoonist with The Hindu in 1977, where he spent 12 years learning about journalism from Kasturi.[2] After leaving The Hindu in 1989, he moved to Delhi and worked with the Sunday Mail where he experimented with different forms of cartooning – pocket and editorial, as well as started working as a graphic editor.[2]
Subsequently, he moved to The Economic Times. He is currently the Chief Political Cartoonist with The Indian Express,[1] in which his editorial strip, Business as Usual, appears daily.[2]
He has drawn and written graphic novels in Malayalam and a travel book on Kerala, Spices & Souls: A Doodler's Journey Through Kerala. He is said to have been doing graphic shorts in Malayalam literary journals as early as the 1990s. He has also written Santa and the Scribes: The Making of Fort Kochi, which was published in 2014.[3]
A recurring character who features in his cartoons is a bespectacled young boy who makes statements too mature for his years. This character was developed during his time at Sunday Mail and resumed when he moved to The Indian Express.[2] Unny avoids drawing cartoons about religion, claiming to have no knowledge about the subject.[2] Cartoonists who had an influence on him include R. K. Laxman, K. Shankar Pillai, O. V. Vijayan, Abu Abraham and Rajinder Puri.[2]
Books
edit- Spices and Souls Archived 22 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine
- Business as Usual
- Santa and the Scribes: The Making of Fort Kochi
- RK Laxman: Back with a Punch[4]
References
edit- ^ a b "E. P. Unny". Indian Institute of Cartoonists. Archived from the original on 18 February 2020.
- ^ a b c d e f S, Cris (9 January 2024). Karunakaran, Binu (ed.). "EP Unny interview: 'Cartoonists no more expect understanding from political class'". The News Minute. Retrieved 25 October 2024.
- ^ "Waiting for the Dark Knight". Fountain Ink.
- ^ Modi, Chintan Girish (24 May 2022). "Book review: EP Unny's book on RK Laxman reflects on the evolution of cartoons in India". Firstpost. Retrieved 25 October 2024.
- Sources
- Review of Spices and Souls, Frontline magazine Archived 1 November 2013 at the Wayback Machine
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