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Dear Cartoonist,

This year, the Kerala Cartoon Academy  is planning an exhibition of the caricatures of Oscar winners Resool Pookutty and A R Rehman, to salute the talented Indians and their achievement globally.
We are planning to 50 caricatures each of Resool and Rahman, which would be exhibited in December.
As of now, we have collected 50 Resool Pookutty caricatures from 50 cartoonists.

Now KCA is requesting all cartoonists to contribute caricature/cartoon of A R Rehman to make out effort fruitful and meaningful.
You may email a hi-resolution (300 DPI) image of the work to

cartoonacademy@gmail.com

Thanks

Regards

SUDHEERNATH

(Cartoonist)

secretary

Kerala Cartoon Academy

Born in 1971, Nicolas Vadot spent his childhood in France and in Belgium. He studied visual communication at the Ecole de Recherches Graphiques (ERG) in Brussels and graduated from the degree course in 1993. After sporadic publications in various small newspapers, his first cartoon was published in the weekly Belgian magazine Le Vif/L’Express on December 1993. He soon became the official political cartoonist for the magazine and a selection of his work was published in 1998 in a book under the title of Dans Le Vif du Sujet. In 1999 the editor of Le Vif/L’Express entrusted him with his own page, La Semaine de Vadot (Vadot’s Week), in which he illustrates the week’s national and international political events. From 2004 until 2007, he was the regular cartoonist for Cash Magazine. He now works for the daily financial newspaper L’Echo, in which he publishes everyday.

Nicolas has also published several graphic novels. In 1994 he took part in the production of an album entitled 31 Place de Brouckère which is a collection of short-strip graphic novel stories. In 2001, in collaboration with film critic O. Guéret, he created the Gerry Geronimo trilogy (Norbert l’Imaginaire), followed, in 2006 by 80 Days. In November 2007, release of The George W. Bush Years, a book of 190 political cartoons on the Bush presidency.

Cathy Wilcox was born in 1963 in Sydney, Australia, where she grew up. She studied visual communications, where she gravitated towards illustration, humour and words. During her studies she worked in a department store, which allowed her to closely observe the human species.

She travelled to France in 1985, where she lived in Paris until December 1987. There, she met two of her cartooning heroes, Sempé and Claire Bretécher.

In 1988, on returning to Sydney, she began drawing for the newspaper The Sydney Morning Herald and for other publications. She also began illustrating children’s books – of which she has now illustrated more than 17 – three of which have been nominated for national children’s book awards. She has been cartooning regularly for the Sydney Morning Herald since 1989 and the Melbourne Age since 1993. She covers extremely diverse subjects ranging from politics, human relationships, science, business, religion and dogs… She has published two collections of her cartoons, “Throw Away Lines” (1991) and “The Bad Guys are Winning” (2005). She has received several press artist awards (Stanley Awards) and most recently a “Walkley Award” (for journalism) in 2007.

Pierre Wiazemsky (Wiaz) was born in Rome in 1949. After university he studied advertising art and Political cartooning. Since 1972 he has worked for the French weekly magazine Le Nouvel Observateur. In 1968 he drew his first cartoons for the magazines Pop Music and Best.

Since 2001, he has worked for La Provence. With a very left-wing bias, he has published many thousands of cartoons about the French political class. In September 1987 during the channel TF1 television show Droit de Réponse presented by Michel Polac, he drew (live) a cartoon which displeased Francis Bouygues the then director general causing the programme’s entire staff to be sacked. He has also worked for Les Nouvelles Littéraires.

Jim Morin was born January 30, 1953 in Washington D.C. He started drawing cartoons at the age of seven, taking as his initial influences the work of Walt Disney, Jay Ward, and Bill Hanna and Joseph Barbera. The social and political upheaval during the 1960s prompted an interest in current events. Upon graduation, Morin began his editorial cartooning career at the Beaumont (TX) Enterprise and Journal and the Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch. In December, 1978, he joined the staff of The Miami Herald. His cartoons are syndicated internationally by King Features. Jim Morin’s many honors include the 1996 Berryman Award from the National Press Foundation, 1992 National Cartoonist Society Award, Overseas Press Club Awards in 1979 and 1990, and numerous others. He was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1977 and 1990. Morin is the author of three books: Famous Cats, Jim Morin’s Field Guide to Birds, and a political cartoon collection, Line of Fire.

Mohd Nor bin Khalid (born 1951) aka Lat started his professional career at the age of thirteen when his cartoons were published in Majallah Filem and Movie News. While still in his teens, his first comics ‘Tiga Sekawan’ and ‘Keluarga Si Mamat’ appeared weekly in the newspaper Berita Minggu. By 1974, his artistic talent was recognized and he became
editorial cartoonist of the New Straits Times, a large Malaysian newspaper. He left the daily a decade later to freelance. Over the years, Lat did all types of cartooning: political, social, and gag cartoons; comic strips, commercials, and animation. Lat is especially known for his comic ‘Kampung Boy’. His many achievements were crowned with the awarding of the very prestigious Malaysian honorific “datuk” in 1994.

Bernhard Willem Holtrop (Willem) was born in the Netherlands in 1941. His cartoons, strips and comics are directly inspired by world news and his chronicles depict the current cultural life (both emphasizing graphic expression): “Revue de Presse” and “Chez les Esthètes” for “l’Hebdo Hara-Kiri” then “Charlie-Hebdo”, “Chez les Esthètes” for “Charlie Mensuel”.His strips and drawings for the press were published in, amongst others, Phosphore, Bijster , Cocktail Comix, Provo , Métal Hurlant, La Grosse Bertha, 50 millions de consommateurs, Zéro, Anathème, Vrij Nederland, l’Echo des Savanes (deuxième période), Hara-Kiri , Lard-Frit , Rouge, Réciproquement, Aloha, l’Horreur est Humaine, Zoulou, Rigolo (la famille “Surprise”d’un jeu des 7 familles), BD-l’Hebdo de la BD, Passages , Politis, HP/De Tijd , Le Fou Parle, Siné Massacre, Les Cahiers du Cinéma, Télérama, Mords-y-l’oeil , Lui, Strapazin, (Le Petit) Psykopat (Illustré) ,…. then gathered into albums.

Andrzej Krauze, an illustrator, cartoonist, poster designer, was born in Poland in 1947. He had his first drawings published in 1966 and in 1973 graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Worked in Poland for weeklies Szpilki (1970 – 1977) and Kultura (1974 – 1981), and a publishing house Czytelnik (1974 – 1980), who published three collections of his drawings (1977, 1978 and 1980). He won numerous satirical awards in Poland (Gold, Silver and Bronze Pin) and elsewhere (1st Prize in Forte dei Marmi’s Political Satire competition in 1982, Victoria and Albert Museum’s Award for illustration in 1996).

In 1979 moved to London, where he still lives. Work published in The Times, The Independent on Sunday, The Sunday Telegraph, The Observer, The Economist, The New York Times. In 1989 started working at The Guardian. In 2001 started to publish regularly in Rzeczpospolita, a leading Polish daily newspaper. He is a regular contributor to New Scientist, The Bookseller, The Jewish Chronicle, Regeneration and Renewal, Nowy Czas (Londom), The Scientist (Philadelphia), Internazionale (Rome), Courrier International and Medecine/Sciences (Paris).

Garrick Tremain is highly regarded as both a painter and one of the New Zealand’s funniest and most perceptive political cartoonists. A New Zealander by birth, he was a city child who wished he’d been a country kid. Consequently he left school to work on farms and sheep stations. It was here, in the smoko rooms and shearing sheds that his drawing ability first raised eyebrows, and he returned to the city to test his suspected talent in commercial art studios. For ten years he climbed the advertising ladder before deciding he could best combine his love of art and the rural environment by becoming a landscape painter. Since 1972 he has been a full time professional painter and in 1988 decided to add the string of political cartooning to his bow. When time allows he takes respite from the easel at the piano or on the golf course.

Tom Scott (born 1947) is regarded by some as one of the best New Zealand cartoonists since the 1970s. Scott has been featured regularly for most of his career, initially for the New Zealand Listener magazine and then for the Evening Post newspaper and its successor the Dominion Post. As a newspaper columnist and cartoonist, Scott often provokes New Zealand politicians and at one stage was banned from the press contingent for a considerable period of time by the Prime Minister of the day, the Right Honourable Sir Robert Muldoon, which naturally resulted in continuing astringent expressions in the press by Scott.

Scott has won numerous awards, including New Zealand Cartoonist of the Year (five times), Columnist of the Year, and Political Columnist of the Year (three times). He also won scriptwriting awards for Fallout and for View from the Top. Scott co-wrote the screenplay for the animated feature Footrot Flats: The Dog’s Tale with Murray Ball. In 2001 Scott wrote the semiautobiographical stage play The Daylight Atheist which has since been performed by numerous theatres in New Zealand and Australia.

Heng Kim Song (Heng) has been the freelance editorial cartoonist for Lianhe Zaobao, the largest Chinese daily in Singapore, since 1984. He currently produces 5 cartoons a week for the daily. He also contributes regularly to other newspapers in Asia, and his cartoons on international issues are also reprinted in major international publications.

Over the years, some of the awards Heng has won for his work include: the First Prize in the United Nations ESCAP’s 50th Anniversary Cartoon Competition in 1998, and the “Grafica Internazionale Award” awarded by the International Political Satire Festival in Italy, in 2000. Heng has participated in many exhibitions. From 2004 to 2007, he was invited by the World Economic Forum to exhibit his cartoons at its Davos annual meeting and regional events in Singapore, Beijing, Tokyo and Seoul.

Malcolm Evans has drawn cartoons for as long as he can remember. Beginning as a professional cartoonist in the 1960s he first worked on the local paper in Tauranga, New Zealand. After travelling to Europe in the mid sixties, when he worked on the Express and Star in England, Evans returned to New Zealand before joining its biggest daily paper The New Zealand Herald. Eight years later he left to found a graphics studio, before returning to the New Zealand Herald again, until 2003. Evans supports the Editor’s right to decide what his paper will publish, but he believes that, in the tradition of Hogarth, Low and many others, a cartoonist should be free to say whatever is fair comment. And it was during this time that some of Evans’ most powerful cartoons were published by the Herald and he was twice voted Qantas New Zealand Cartoonist of the year. Today Evans supplies cartoons to New Zealand’s biggest farming newspapers and to New Zealand catholic. He also draws caricatures, paints in acrylic and sculpts in bronze. Evans has published twelve books of cartoons and has illustrated many books and essays.

Caroline Rutz (Caro), aged 36, has been a cartoonist with the PME Magazine (monthly Swiss economic publication) since 2007. Through this journal she has made her comment on national and international topics with her illustrations. Her tone is sharp, witty and sarcastic. Caro’s talent and skill as a cartoonist has been acquired over 16 years. After high school, she studied graphic arts at the Ecole d’Arts Visuels in Bienne (Switzerland) While continuing her studies she made her first contributions as a press cartoonist with the Bieler Tagblatt, the biennois German daily publication and from 1997 the Journal du Jura, the Francophone daily. Working for these publications she has developed an understanding of the two cultures (German and French) as well as her journalistic view: that a press cartoon can carry an important message! At this stage in her career Caro continues to develop her technique, working on storyboards and other projects for student and council publications. Additionally, from 2001 to 2006 Caro has contributed to Mediatic, RTSR’s newspaper. Each year Caro shows her work at press exhibitions and festivals. Her simple graphic style in watercolour and her keenly observed caricatures lends itself well to portraying the news of the day. Her illustrations stand equally well alone or as part of a series or comic strip.

Guy Keverne Body, born 1967, started cartooning at Takapuna Grammar School, in Auckland. The cartoons in question were generally obscene versions of Sesame Street or The Wombles. He has worked as a cartoonist and newspaper artist since 1986, when he joined NZ Truth. At the very start of his career, he had the privilege of meeting Sir Gordon Minhinnick, NZ’s foremost cartoonist, who advised him: to go somewhere and learn how to draw. Since then he has done work for the Auckland Star, NZ Herald, and The Scotsman (though the last was basically 5 years of drawing business graphs). This has been accompanied by occasional book illustrating. He has been cartooning for the New Zealand Herald since 2004 in a back-up capacity to Rod Emmerson.