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Cartoonist P. C. Balasubramaniam releases his collection of cartoons, Pheroze L. Vincent reports

Amidst his excited relatives and students, 24-year-old cartoonist-film maker-poet-actor Balasubramaniam released his collection of cartoons on August 20. The book, Cartoonism, was released by Chitrakala Academy president V. Jeevananthan, in the presence of RJ Selvaraj of Suryan FM and Rotarian V. S. V. Senthil at Hotel Sree Annapoorna, R.S.Puram.

Formerly a teacher of film studies and photography and PSG CAS' Visual Communication department, Balasubramaniam decided to compile his doodles after reading one of cartoonist Sudhir Dar's books a couple of years back. Captioned in Tamil, the book has cartoons on films, politics and life.

Bala, as his friends call him, admits he's a funny guy and his sense of humour has “positive and negative effects” on him. “I get my sense of humour from my mother. There's always some comedy happening at home,” he adds. His mother M. Seetha presented Jeevananthan the first copy of the book.

Full report here Hindu