COMIC ARTIST

R. K. Laxman

1921 - 2015

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Rasipuram Krishnaswami Laxman (24 October 1921 – 26 January 2015) was an Indian cartoonist, illustrator, and humorist. 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. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of R. K. Laxman has received more than 1,513,270 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. R. K. Laxman is the 156th most popular comic artist (down from 134th in 2019), the 803rd most popular biography from India (down from 638th in 2019) and the most popular Indian Comic Artist.

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Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, R. K. Laxman ranks 156 out of 226Before him are Guy Delisle, Norihiro Yagi, George Herriman, Mort Walker, Neal Adams, and Harvey Kurtzman. After him are Jim Lee, Seishi Kishimoto, Eduardo Risso, Yuu Watase, Makoto Yukimura, and Moyoco Anno.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, R. K. Laxman ranks 410Before him are Adolf Wiklund, Muhibbe Darga, Peter Sallis, Paul Falk, Peggy Rea, and Spartaco Bandinelli. After him are Franz Gabl, Jacques Friedel, François Picard, Ruth Barcan Marcus, Johnny Otis, and Gordon Thomas. Among people deceased in 2015, R. K. Laxman ranks 415Before him are Zhivko Gospodinov, Shirley Stelfox, Andy Fraser, Patricia Canning Todd, Anatoly Logunov, and Thelma Coyne Long. After him are Alan Hodgkinson, Willi Fuggerer, Robert Craft, Sajida al-Rishawi, René Vautier, and Eevi Huttunen.

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In India

Among people born in India, R. K. Laxman ranks 803 out of 1,861Before him are Rukhmabai (1864), Tarsem Singh (1961), Johnny Lever (1957), Sharat Saxena (1950), Shobhna Samarth (1916), and Kapil Dev (1959). After him are Ravindra Kelekar (1925), R. D. Burman (1939), Murli Manohar Joshi (1934), Shyamala Gopalan (1938), R. H. Tawney (1880), and Karisma Kapoor (1974).

Among COMIC ARTISTS In India

Among comic artists born in India, R. K. Laxman ranks 1