Prakash Shetty

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Prakash Shetty
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Born (1960-04-01) 1 April 1960 (age 65)
OccupationCartoonist

Prakash Shetty is an Indian cartoonist and caricaturist known for his Spot caricaturing. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

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Personal life

Prakash Shetty was born in Mangalore, Karnataka on 1 April 1960. [7] He earned a degree in Bachelor of Arts.[ citation needed ]

Career

He started drawing cartoons at the age of 15. He started his career with a Kannada magazine called Santhosha (later renamed as Dukha) and an English daily called The Times Of Deccan and Myru Kannada Daily. He settled as cartoonist with The Week . Kitoo (one of his creations) is a comic serial with a boy as the main character. It has been published in multiple magazines for 15 years. He joined The Week as a cartoon illustrator in 1990's and resigned and came out in 2001.

He worked as an independent spot caricaturist and freelancer. He edited a cartoon humor magazine called 'Ooshaan Thaadikaarante Myru'in Kannada language for a while. [8] His cartoons were published in the book of Indian Cartoonists. [9] From 2001 to 2012 did spot caricaturing events travelling all over India and abroad. His cartoons are famous for portraying the facts without fear. He follows a different type of caricature style where the person's unique characters and visualised on to the drawings

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