The Most Famous
COMIC ARTISTS from India
This page contains a list of the greatest Indian Comic Artists. The pantheon dataset contains 174 Comic Artists, 1 of which were born in India. This makes India the birth place of the 21st most number of Comic Artists behind Germany and Finland.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Indian Comic Artists of all time. This list of famous Indian Comic Artists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. R. K. Laxman (1921 - 2015)
With an HPI of 43.61, R. K. Laxman is the most famous Indian Comic Artist. His biography has been translated into 20 different languages on wikipedia.
Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Laxman (24 October 1921 – 26 January 2015) was an Indian cartoonist, illustrator, and humorist. He is 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. 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. 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.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as comic artists born between 1921 and 1921. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased comic artists include R. K. Laxman.
