Neelabh Banerjee is an Indian
cartoonist
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,
illustrator
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and
comics artist
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. He created the character of the singing donkey
Gardhab Das along with his brother cartoonist
Jayanto Banerjee for the Indian children's magazine
Target
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Physical items
* Shooting target, used in marksmanship training and various shooting sports
** Bullseye (target), the goal one for which one aims in many of these sports
** Aiming point, in field artillery, fi ...
.
He is currently the national creative director at
Reliance Industries
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. His animation series named Breaking Toons appear on
CNN-IBN
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,
IBN7
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In 2013, News18 ...
and
ETV channels.
Career
Neelabh was born in
Lucknow
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in 1965. He started his career as a crime reporter at
The Pioneer and later worked as a cartoonist and illustrator for ''
Target
Target may refer to:
Physical items
* Shooting target, used in marksmanship training and various shooting sports
** Bullseye (target), the goal one for which one aims in many of these sports
** Aiming point, in field artillery, fi ...
'' magazine. He moved on to become a staff artist at the
Times of India
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, where he was the national arts and illustrations editor. At the Times of India, Neelabh collaborated with associate editor
Jug Suraiya
Jug Suraiya is a prominent Indian journalist, author and columnist. He is best known as a satirist and columnist. Suraiya is a former editorial opinion editor and associate editor of the ''Times of India''.
He is Delhi-based and schooled at La Ma ...
to create the popular comic strip ''
Dubyaman'', 'a deranged superhero destined to skid on the banana peel of his own ineptitude' based on American president
George Bush. The comic strips were collected in a book, ''Dubyaman's Duniya'', which appeared in 2002.
The two have also collaborated on the strip ''Duniya ke Neta'' which appeared in the Times of India.
Bibliography
Neelabh collaborates with various people (
Jug Suraiya
Jug Suraiya is a prominent Indian journalist, author and columnist. He is best known as a satirist and columnist. Suraiya is a former editorial opinion editor and associate editor of the ''Times of India''.
He is Delhi-based and schooled at La Ma ...
, Amit Dasgupta,
Ajit Ninan
Ajit Ninan (born 1955 in Hyderabad, India) is an Indian political cartoonist, best known for drawing the ''Centrestage'' series of cartoons in India Today magazine and ''Ninan's World'' in the Times of India.
Ninan lives in New Delhi, where he ...
,
Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar (; born Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury, sometimes spelled as Rabindra Shankar Chowdhury; 7 April 1920 – 11 December 2012) was an Indian sitarist and composer. A sitar virtuoso, he became the world's best-known export of North In ...
,
Aniruddha Bahal
Aniruddha Bahal is the founder and editor-in-chief of Cobrapost.com – an Indian news website. Prior to founding Cobrapost, he co-founded ''Tehelka''.
Bahal was born in Allahabad and is a university graduate. He moved to Delhi in 1991 where he be ...
) to produce the strips.
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See also
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Jug Suraiya
Jug Suraiya is a prominent Indian journalist, author and columnist. He is best known as a satirist and columnist. Suraiya is a former editorial opinion editor and associate editor of the ''Times of India''.
He is Delhi-based and schooled at La Ma ...
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Gardhab Das
References
External links
Neelabh Banerjee's websiteNeelabh Banerjee
on *Twitter
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Neelabh Banerjee
on *Facebook
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Dubyaman cartoon strip gallery
Indian comic strip cartoonists
Indian editorial cartoonists
Indian comics artists
1965 births
Living people
Artists from Lucknow
Articles containing video clips
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