Neelabh Banerjee

Neelabh Banerjee, who signs his work @NeelabhToons, is an Indian cartoonist and illustrator. Neelabh is currently the national creative director at Reliance Industries Ltd. His cartoons and animation series named Breaking Toons [1] appear on CNN-IBN, IBN7 and ETV channels. He created the character of the singing donkey Gardhab Das along with his brother cartoonist Jayanto for the Indian children's magazine Target.


Neelabh Banerjee is the first Indian celebrity cartoonist to offer his work to be copied or stolen! Many newspapers, typically in the regional media and unable to afford top-quality cartooning, take this unusual offer with both hands.[2]

Also, @NeelabhToons is now seen featuring in short animations. Here, he is a bird who flies into newsy situations where no other media person can!

Neelabh was born in Lucknow in 1965.[3] He started his career as a crime reporter at The Pioneer and later worked as a cartoonist and illustrator for Target magazine. He moved on to become a staff artist at the Times of India, where he was the national arts and illustrations editor. At the Times of India, Neelabh collaborated with associate editor Jug Suraiya to create the popular comic strip Dubyaman, 'a deranged superhero destined to skid on the banana peel of his own ineptitude' based on American president George Bush.[4] The comic strips were collected in a book, Dubyaman's Duniya, which appeared in 2002.[5][6] The two have also collaborated on the strip Duniya ke Neta which appeared in the Times of India.

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  1. ↑ "Neelabh Banerjee". www.ibnlive.com. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
  2. ↑ "Open Source Toons". www.twitter.com. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
  3. ↑ "Cartoonists' Profile" (PDF).
  4. ↑ "Indian comic strip spoofs U.S. president George Bush". Reuters.
  5. ↑ Barooah, Sangeeta (Jun 27, 2002). "Comic relief! Uncle Sam stripped!". The Hindu.
  6. ↑ Jug Suraiya; Neelabh Bannerjee (2002*). Dubyaman's Duniya. Egmont Imagination (India) Limited. Retrieved 11 April 2012. Check date values in: |date= (help)

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