R. K. Laxman

Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Iyer Laxman born 24 October 1921, Mysore, India) is an Indian cartoonist, illustrator, and humorist. He is widely regarded as India's greatest-ever cartoonist

and is best known for his creation The Common Man.R. K. Laxman was born in Mysore, in a Tamil Iyer family. His father was a headmaster and Laxman was the youngest of six sons. One of his siblings is R.K. Narayan, English languagenovelist.Laxman was engrossed by the illustrations in magazines such as Strand Magazine, Punch, Bystander, Wide World and Tit-Bits, even before he could read.Soon he was drawing on his own, on the floors,walls and doors of his house and doodling caricatures of his teachers at school; praised by a teacher for his drawing of a peepal leaf, he began to think of himself as an artist in the making. Another early influence on Laxman were the cartoons of the world-renowned British cartoonist, Sir David Low (whose signature he misread as "cow" for a long time) that appeared now and then in The Hindu.

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