Exhibition of 21 Cartoonist for 21 Days to be inaugurated
Team News Riveting
Raipur, December 28
After successfully organizing cartoon festivals in Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Chennai, and Hyderabad, the only monthly cartoon magazine of the country, Cartoon Watch is going to organize the festival in Bengaluru.
In its 26th year of publication, the magazine is going to felicitate four eminent cartoonists of Karnataka, V G Narendra, K R Swami, B G Gujjarappa, G S Naganath with life time achievement awards at a function to be held at art gallery of Indian Institute of Cartoonists (IIC) from 11 a.m. onwards on January 1, 2022.
In the programme to be held under aegis of Chhattisgarh Tourism Board, Chhattisgarh Culture Department and IIC, the special cartoon festival issue of the Cartoon Watch magazine would also be unveiled.
Editor of Cartoon Watch magazine Triambak Sharma, in a statement, informed that the magazine that is published from Chhattisgarh state will also organize a 21-day-long cartoon exhibition in the ICC.
Caricatures of 21 cartoonists Gujjarappa, Nanjunda Swami, R A Suri, Satish Acharya, Chandrakant Acharya, G.S. Nagnath, Raghupati Shringeri, Manohar Acharya, Jayram Udupa, Jivan Shetti, James Waj, Subhash Chandra, Sanket Gurudatta, Satish Babu, Shailesh Ujire, Gicha Bolkatte, Prasanna Kumar, Dattathri M.N., Ravi Pujari, Yatish Siddakatte, and Chandra Gangoli would be on display at the ICC art gallery.
Notable, the Cartoon Watch magazine recently organized its silver jubilee function at Darbar hall of Chhattisgarh Raj Bhawan. Cartoonists of Chhattisgarh were felicitated in the function.
Earlier, cartoonists of eminence, R K Laxman, Sudhir Tailang, Abid Surti have been conferred the lifetime achievement award of the magazine.
Former President of India APJ Abdul Kalam had also participated in the cartoon festival of the magazine and cartoonist Bala Saheb Thakre had received his one and only award for cartooning from the magazine.
Earlier, the magazine had held a carton exhibition in London (UK).
The editor of magazine, Triambak Sharma was also a special invitee of Global Cartoon Forum in its function at Paris (France).
The Cartoon Watch Magazine in a bid to preserve the old cartoons of eminent artists had established a cartoon museum in which works of artists like Shankar Pillai, Mario Miranda, R K Laxman, and Sudhir Tailang could be seen.
Cartoon Watch magazine in its 25 years journey had also adopted a positive approach and had organized many national level competitions for social causes like drug abuse, environment and energy conservation. The budding artists had showcased their talent in these competitions along with the eminent cartoonists.
