The Undecided Place

Well Aamir Khan - who is our Bollywood Superstar took to on occasion to say that India was getting intolerant and his wife did ask "whether they should live India" - it did have a lot of eye brows raised and here is my funny take on the undecided place "I❤️?"

Raising Intolerance in India

Well really felt this whole issue of raising intolerance was kiddish - thought will bring this toon with kiddish flavour too ;)

No place for "Common Man"

The great cartooning legend of India RK Laxman was rejected enrollment by J.J School of Arts (reputed institution of arts in India) in 1930's as his "drawings failed to conform to the high expectations". And once he passed away, the Chief Minister said to have open a museum in the same institution as mark of remembrance - but the Ironically some Artist groups and association are opposing it and are likely to approach the Chief Minister of Maharashtra to reconsider his decision as the Institution is still due to open a museum to show other elite artists who's work haven't been displayed yet anywhere and displaying the RK Laxman cartoon's would be insult to these artists :). Nevertheless what ever is the issue felt will put up my funny take on this issue starring famous cartoon character of RK Laxman "Common Man"

If at all the kids want something to be ban

In India, yes there is usage of bitter gourd in the diet - though supposed to be good , but as a kid I did surely hate it ! and with so many bans being seeked from people in india with respect to food, felt to put this funny take

Keep it going cartoonists

This ad totally nailed it ! Though am not coffee drinker but - Keeping it going is the matra for me :)

Time to update "NO SMOKING" board

Yes there is so much about the Volkswagen "smoke" scandal going on and here is my funny take on the same and if there is any Volkswagen owners out there - apologies mate ! ;) 

whats your angle of view ?

Recently a kid in US got arrested when he had taken to show his teacher a clock that he had built. Apparently the Teacher thought it was a bomb and called in the Police who had him arrested :(

 Thought to toon this to show how a perception of angle of view changes the situation

Rightly said

Well the pics speaks it all, very purpose of "Free Soul Toons" :)

More about the man Kurt Vonnegut 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut

Bear market gets Dragon power !!!

Well from past few days the stock market over the globe has plunged due to crash in Chinese Stock Market. Here is my take on recent 1500 points down on our Bombay Stock Exchange. Also for some folks who want to know what's with BULL and BEAR - a BULL symbolises progressive market and a BEAR symbolises regressive market

Remix Toon

A cartoon template often goes go with many dialogues, here is once such cartoon which I had done earlier for some other conversation. Did some minor changes to the characters and voila we have a new conversation

What happens to my paper toons ?

Well I have a four year old kid and he hijacks all my paper drawing to ink them in his own ways. Here is one example of it :)

Teacher's Day Special

I am big Calvin and Hobbes fan, most of my sarcasm ability comes from these toons. Needless to say Bill Watterson is my Guru (source of inspiration to take up cartooning). So this is dedicated to him.

Do I draw these toons ?

While most of work was enclosed - never really published it much and some were of course surprised that I did tooning and they never had wind of it. So, there were questions if I drew them or there was some tool I used for producing them. Had to explain them indeed I did draw them but they were digitized later giving them colour and form.

Most of my toons were on paper - never really got to see the world. Until I stumbled upon the tool InkScape, played around with this tool and it just worked wonders with my toons in digitizing it. Below is a collage of my toons before they were inked.

You can't take away cricket from N Srinivasan

Must say this one of my fav :) probably because it is related to cricket the game I love, eat and sleep, There was a news article which said a BCCI meeting was adjourned due to Mr. N Srinivasan presence and this made me to give a funny touch to it

Life as it is :)

Back here in India - every other India parent in 90's wanted their kids to take up engineering and go into the software industry which offered a descent enough salary which many says catapulted many families from lower middle class to upper middle class.

While yes the software jobs were happening - slowly into the job many people would develop other interests which were probably long lost (in my case cartooning) or a new found interest. But, then there is catch ! well the cartoon explains it :)

Onion price on the rise

India was bogged down with sudden spike in onions prices and hence did this toon as my funny take on this scenario :)

PS: The man address the lady as "Ammavare" - which means Madam in Kannada language (my mother tongue)

Uppi - 2

This cartoon was for one of online portal which caters to kannada movies promotions. This success of this cartoon made to come up with blog as well. There was surprise that this cartoon appeared in kannada daily Udayavani along with a cartoon of another awesome and great cartoonist Satish Acharya