Nasreen Sultana Mitu

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Nasreen Sultana Mitu
নাসরীন সুলতানা মিতু
Born1987
Bangladesh
Occupation(s) Cartoonist, science teacher

Nasreen Sultana Mitu (born 1987) is a Bangladeshi political cartoonist, caricaturist, and science educator who signs her work with the name Mitu. She is the most prominent female cartoonist in Bangladesh. [1]

Nasreen Sultana Mitu was born in 1987 in Bangladesh. She began cartooning in 2006. [2] Most of her work has appeared in the satirical magazine Unmad and the daily newspaper New Age. One of her most widely circulated cartoons was from 2013, where she depicted a pair of jeans with a blood-stained price tag in response to the deaths of garment workers in the Rana Plaza collapse. [1] She serves as an editor at Unmad and Dhaka Comics. [3]

Mitu was an assistant professor at the University of Rajshahi until 2018. She founded Project Tiktaalik in 2018 to develop cartoon-based science education materials. [4]

She serves on the board of Cartoonists Rights Network International [4] and is a member of the Bangladesh Cartoonist Association. [5]

References

  1. 1 2 Lent, John A. (2023). Asian political cartoons. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. p. 210. ISBN   978-1-4968-4252-7.
  2. ↑ DIREZ, Valérie (2018-02-03). "Free speech: Draw to move the rows! Meet Mitu, the cartoonist from Bangladesh! – Le Crayon" (in French). Retrieved 2024-04-02.
  3. ↑ Comics, Dhaka. "About". Dhaka Comics. Retrieved 2024-04-02.
  4. 1 2 "Governance - Cartoonists Rights". 2023-05-18. Retrieved 2024-04-02.
  5. ↑ "Bangladesh Cartoonist Association demands release of Kishore". New Age. Retrieved 2024-04-03.
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