Google celebrated the 94th birthday of legendary cartoonist RK Laxman, the creator of The Common Man, with a special Doodle on Saturday.
The doodle, in black-and-white just like Laxman’s sketches which created history, depicts a studio in three parts, comprising his work desk, the artist sitting on a chair drawing his famous ‘Common Man’ on a vertical canvas, with the Common Man peeping from behind, and a collection of work canvasses shown at the end.
“We are very pleased and happy that Google has honoured his memory today with a dedicated doodle…” the cartoonist’s daughter-in-law Usha Srinivas Laxman told IANS.
Born this day in 1921, Laxman passed away aged 93 after a prolonged illness in a Pune hospital on 26 January this year, marking the end of an era.
He is survived his widow Kamala, son Srinivas, daughter-in-law Usha, grand-daugther Rimanika.
The last one figuring an Indian artiste was themed on the late MF Husain on his birth centenary on 26 September.
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