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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. Narayan's stories in The Hindu. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. R. K. Laxman is the 173rd most popular comic artist (down from 156th in 2019), the 957th most popular biography from India (down from 804th in 2019) and the most popular Indian Comic Artist.

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Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, R. K. Laxman ranks 173 out of 226. Before him are Tooru Fujisawa, Jules Feiffer, Bill Watterson, Yuu Watase, Harvey Pekar, and Jim Lee. After him are Kōsuke Fujishima, Robert Kirkman, Len Wein, Scott McCloud, Peter Laird, and Hiroyuki Takei.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, R. K. Laxman ranks 444. Before him are Ion Negoițescu, Wilbur Thompson, Horace Gould, Chen Muhua, Yevgeni Babich, and Terence Cooke. After him are Sahir Ludhianvi, Joan Greenwood, Marie Maynard Daly, Vivian Blaine, Juanita M. Kreps, and Monty Hall. Among people deceased in 2015, R. K. Laxman ranks 489. Before him are Aarthi Agarwal, Eduardo Bonvallet, Sam Simon, Peter Westbury, Oles Buzina, and Stanislav Gross. After him are Pavel Srníček, Brian Friel, Harry Gallatin, Amanda Peterson, Frank Borghi, and Holly Woodlawn.

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In India

Among people born in India, R. K. Laxman ranks 957 out of 1,861. Before him are Nabaneeta Dev Sen (1938), Anupam Tripathi (1988), Zohra Sehgal (1912), Narain Karthikeyan (1977), Bhanu Athaiya (1929), and Pratima Barua Pandey (1934). After him are Mridula Sinha (1942), Rohinton Mistry (1952), Tariq Anwar (1945), Jadav Payeng (1963), Medha Patkar (1954), and Alka Yagnik (1966).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In India

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

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