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Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Laxman〔 ''Pg. 11 in the source says that Laxman & his brother Narayan were Tamil Iyer Brahmins.''〕 (24 October 1921 – 26 January 2015) was an Indian cartoonist, illustrator, and humorist.〔(Laxman's-eye view ) Frontline Magazine – 18–31 July 1998〕 He was best known for his creation ''The Common Man'' and for his daily cartoon strip, "''You Said It''" in ''The Times of India'', which started in 1951. Laxman started his career as a part-time cartoonist, working mostly for local newspapers and magazines. While a college student, he illustrated his elder brother R. K. Narayan's stories in ''The Hindu''.〔(10 things you need to know about RK Laxman )〕 His first full-time job was as a political cartoonist for the ''The Free Press Journal'' in Mumbai. Later, he joined ''The Times of India'', and became famous for ''The Common Man'' character. ==Birth and childhood== R. K. Laxman was born in Mysore in 1921.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Common Man is still at work )〕 His father was a headmaster and Laxman was the youngest of six sons (he had a sister as well); an older brother is the famous novelist R. K. Narayan. Laxman was known as "Pied Piper of Delhi". Laxman was engrossed by the illustrations in magazines such as ''The Strand'', ''Punch'', ''Bystander'', ''Wide World'' and ''Tit-Bits'', before he had even begun to read. Soon he was drawing on his own, on the floors, walls and doors of his house and doodling caricatures of his teachers at school; praised by a teacher for his drawing of a peepal leaf, he began to think of himself as an artist in the making. Another early influence on Laxman was the work of the world-renowned British cartoonist, Sir David Low (whose signature he misread as "cow" for a long time) that appeared now and then in ''The Hindu''. Laxman notes in his autobiography, ''The Tunnel of Time'': Laxman was the captain of his local "Rough and Tough and Jolly" cricket team and his antics inspired the stories "Dodu the Money Maker" and "The Regal Cricket Club" written by his brother, Narayan. Laxman's idyllic childhood was shaken for a while when his father suffered a paralytic stroke and died around a year later, but the elders at home bore most of the increased responsibility, while Laxman continued with his schooling. After high school, Laxman applied to the J. J. School of Art, Bombay hoping to concentrate on his lifelong interests of drawing and painting, but the dean of the school wrote to him that his drawings lacked "the kind of talent to qualify for enrolment in our institution as a student", and refused admission. He finally graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Mysore. In the meantime he continued his freelance artistic activities and contributed cartoons to ''Swarajya'' and an animated film based on the mythological character Narada. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「R. K. Laxman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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