Cartoonist calls for more government initiative, support
John Chandran, a cartoonist working in a Kannada daily wants the government to support this art by taking more initiatives as well as committing more funds. He has also called for opening of more schools to train interested youngsters.
THE UNION and state government should take more initiatives and allot more funds for the promotion and encouragement of cartoonists, said John Chandran, a Kannada daily cartoonist. “More cartoon schools should be opened across the country to train interested youngsters,” said John Chandran.The exhibition featured his famous ‘Nimmi and Friends’, which is a three-column cartoon story and also caricatures of international and national figures like Barack Obama, Swami Nityananda and famous cricket personalities. “The Nimmi cartoons show the fantasies and the pranks of childhood,” said V.G. Narendra, managing trustee, Indian Institute of Cartoonists, India’s first cartoon gallery. Some cartoons show the world from the point of view of a small girl, who thinks that fun and frolick is the way out of the mundane world, said Chandran. Acording to G. Kumar, the gallery manager, the exhibition had a mediocre footfall of around one thousand people, who came and showed interest in the cartoons. Stressing on the point made by Chandran, Narendra said that there is not a single government institute for cartoonists in the country. “We should help to polish the imaginations of our youngsters and government funds are necessary,” said Narendra, whose Indian Institute of Cartoonists depends on donations and membership fees.
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