The Indian Institute of CartoonistsOfficial website of Indian Institute of cartoonists: (IIC) is an organisation based in Bangalore that serves to promote and preserve cartooning and cartoonists in India. Founded in 2001, the institute hosts the Indian Cartoon GalleryIIC is the only organisation in India working towards promoting the art of cartooning The News Minute : 5 May 2016 with rotating exhibits focusing on different artists. It has organised more than one hundred exhibitions of cartoons.
Founders and Brief History IIC was registered as a non profitable organization under Trust act in 2001 to promote the art of cartooning in India with B. V. Ramamurthy as the Chair person, V. G. Narendra as the Managing Trustee and B.G. Gujjarappa as a member Trustee. The chief patron as Mario Miranda.The objectives of IIC at BangaloreBest.com : 2001 Then Governor of Karnataka, V. S. Ramadevi inaugurated the IIC at Bangalore on 8 June 2001. Seven leading cartoonists were felicitated with Lifetime Achievement Award. Mario Miranda, Pran, S.D. Padnis, Bapu, Gopulu, Yesudasan and S. K. Nadig. More than 100 cartoonists from across the country had participated in the function. R. K. Laxman was felicitated with Lifetime achievement Award in February 2002 in another function. at CartoonistsIndia.com
The Board of Trustees (IIC as in May 2017) Honorary ChairmanAshok Kheny Advisor Manjunath Nayaker Managing Trustee V. G. Narendra Financial Advisor B. G. Gujjarappa Member Trustees G. S. Naganath and G. S. Krishnan National Adviser Committee Unny, Shekhar Gurera, Suresh Sawant, Syam Mohan, Keshav, Venkataraghavan, Mohana Chandran, E P Peter and Bibek Sengupta Doner Members Family of Late Ranga, Family of Late Maya (Amarnath Kamath) and Melvin Mathew
Indian Cartoon Gallery
After the death of IIC Chairman B. V. Ramamurthy, Ashok Kheny (M.D. Nandi Infrastructure Corridor Enterprise) stepped forward as the Honorary Chairman of the institute. He allocated 5000 square feet of space in the heart of Bangalore for the establishment of the Indian Cartoon Gallery, the first of its kind in India. The premises include a 2,000 sq. ft. gallery, a conference hall and a space for a library. Since then, the gallery has hosted monthly exhibitions featuring both professional and amateur cartoonists. Later on, the gallery was awarded by the Limca Book of Records. at CartoonistsIndia.com
Exhibitions held at the Indian Cartoon Gallery Exhibitions : 2007 Date Cartoonist/s Inaugurated by 16 Aug 2007 B. V. Ramamurthy, V. G. Narendra and B.G. Gujjarappa T. N. Chaturvedi 18 Oct 2007 S.K. Nadig V.N. Subbarao (Chairman, Karnataka Media Academy)
Exhibitions : 2008
Date Cartoonist/s Inaugurated by 23 Jan 2008 Vikas Gupta G.R. Gopinath 6 Feb 2008 Ranjan Somaiah M.N. Venkatachalaiah 7 Mar 2008 Ranga (Ranganath) R.K. Misra (Winner of Lead India Contest) 4 Apr 2008 Shridhar Hunch G. Narayana, chairman, Karnataka Janapada Academy 25 Apr 2008 Alok Nirantar T. Prabhakar, President, Karnataka Chitrakala Parishat. 19 May 2008 Maya Kamath Girish Karnad 14 Jun 2008 B.V. Panduranga Rao Jagadish Shettar 7 Jul 2008 V. Gopal M.S. Narasimha Murthy (Humour Writer) 24 Jul 2008 S. D. PhadnisLifetime Achievement Award, by IIC IndiaArt.com : S. D. Phadnis U. R. Ananthamurthy 11 Aug 2008 Group show of 12 Cartoonists Mahesh Joshi, Sr. Director, Doordarshan, Bangalore. 5 Sept 2008 Prakash Shetty S.G. Vasudev, Eminent Artist 13 Oct 2008 Prabhakar Rao Bail H.S. Venkatesh Murthy (Noted Poet) 4 Nov 2008 Rajesh Pujar Nagathihalli Chandrashekhar 4 Dec 2008 S.K. Nadig Babu Krishnamurthy, (Editor, Karmaveera) 22 Dec 2008 G.Y. Hublikar D.P. Parameshwar, Chairman, Karnataka Media Academy
Exhibitions : 2009
Date Cartoonist/s Inaugurated by 7 Jan 2009 David Low Chris Gibson, Director, British Council, Chennai 6 Feb 2009 R. K. Laxman Jayaramaraje Urs 11 Mar 2009 K.R. Swamy Girish Kasaravalli 6 Apr 2009 G.S. Naganath'FineToons' at IIC indiaPRwire.com : 6 April 2009 V. Manohar 25 Apr 2009 Gireesh Vengara Balan Nambiar 20 Jun 2009 Subhani M.B. Jayaram 8 Jul 2009 MKMA - 2008Winners of Maya Kamath award announced The Hindu : April 16, 2009 Girish Karnad 1 Aug 2009 Shankar Sharad V. Dravid & Pushpa Dravid 5 Sept 2009 Keshav Justice N. Santosh Hegde 3 Oct 2009 Mario Miranda Xerxes Desai 31 Oct 2009 K.N. Balraj Arjun Sajnani 19 Nov 2009 V.R.C. Shekar Dr. Jaimala 2 Dec 2009 Yathish and Yogish Shettigar Anant Nag 26 Dec 2009 Janardhana Swamy Shivamurthy Swamiji
Exhibitions : 2010
Date Cartoonist/s Inaugurated by 10 Jan 2010 Shreyas Navare Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam 15 Feb 2010 M.R. Rajamaran R.H. Kulkarni. 5 Mar 2010 Cartoons for Climate (by British Council) Krishna Palemar (Government of Karnataka) 20 Mar 2010 Sringeri Brothers Jayanth Kaikini 10 Apr 2010 Nirmish Thaker Girish Karnad 6 May 2010 Satish Acharya Arundhati Nag 27 May 2010 Sumanta Baruah U.R. Rao 18 Jun 2010 MKMA-2009Winners of Maya Kamath award announced DNA : 18 May 2010 C.R. Simha 10 Jul 2010 Tadao Kagaya Masayuki Tsuchikawa 29 Jul 2010 Bharat Jagatap M.B. Patil 14 Aug 2010 Vijay Narain Seth (Vins) Dilip Thakore 4 Sept 2010 Jayarama Udupa Dr. Nalluru Prasad 27 Sept 2010 Shyam Mohan Dr. Radha Krishna Raju 18 Oct 2010 Prabhakar Wairkar Dr. M.S. Thimmappa 8 Nov 2010 Satish Yellapur and M.C. Chethan Mukhyamanthri Chandru 29 Nov 2010 Prabhakar Bhatlekar D.K. Chowta 18 Dec 2010 Shankar Pamarthy Chiranjeev Singh
Exhibitions : 2011 Date Cartoonist/s Inaugurated by 17 Jan 2011 Golden Jubilee Exhibition Janardhana Swamy 16 Feb 2011 John Chandran V. Manohar 26 Feb 2011 Abu Abraham Prof. N.S. Ramaswamy 19 Mar 2011 Surendra G.M. Belagali 16 April 2011 Shijo Varghese Sudhakar Rao 30 April 2011 B.G. Gujjarappa B.S. Raghuram 11 June 2011 MKMA – 2010 S.G. Vasudev 9 July 2011 Melvin Mathew B.S. Kumar 6 Aug 2011 Rasheed Kappan Sister Jean Bangalore's Mother Teresa 26 Nov 2011 Shekar Kambalapally Sobha Nambisan 17 Dec 2011 Aswini Kumar Rath and Abani Kumar Rath Harish J. Padmanabha
Exhibitions : 2012
Date Cartoonist/s Inaugurated by 7 Jan 2012 Narsim G.K. Sathya 30 Jan 2012 T.F. Hadimani Chandrashekar Kambar 8 Feb 2012 R. K. Laxman's Unpublished Doodles M.N. Venkatachalaiah, Girish Karnad 17 Mar 2012 Jagadish Kunte Chiranjeev Singh 9 April 2012 Best of Ranga ... 28 April 2012 Rebecca Taylor M.P. Ganesh 19 May 2012 Shijo Varghese Sarath 9 June 2012 MAYA JAAL : by Maya Kamath Shangon Das Gupta 30 June 2012 World of RamamurthyAn exhibition of Cartoons by B. V. Ramamurthy MyBangalore.com : 30 June 2012 K.N. Harikumar 21 July 2012 Balraj K.N. Prem Koshy 13 Aug 2012 Smiling Line : Mega Cartoon Exhibition H. R. Bhardwaj 8 Sept 2012 Manohar Acharya Chandranath Acharya 1 Oct 2012 Laugh with Phadnis ... 20 Oct 2012 Cabodils of Lines : Biswajit Balasubramanian S.G. Vasudev 17 Nov 2012 Kushal Bhattacharya H.N. Suresh 4 Dec 2012 MAAC-2012 Madhuri Upadhyay 24 Dec 2012 Shankar's Cartoons ...
Exhibitions : 2013
Date Cartoonist/s Inaugurated by 19 Jan 2013 Mario's Karnataka Basavaraj 16 Feb 2013 Suresh Sawant R. Sreedhar 9 Mar 2013 B.V. Satyamurty B.R. Chavali 6 Apr 2013 Parjaya Sau Paul Fernandes 8 May 2013 Uday Vitla V. Manohar 8 Jun 2013 MKMA-2012 Girish Karnad 6 Jul 2013 Between the Lines by Prashant Kulkarni Prabhakar Raobail 27 Jul 2013 Rama Baana : Ramadhyani H.N. Ananda 17 Aug 2013 Famous Fifteen Famous Fifteen : 17 Aug 2013 Tadao Kagaya (Japanese Cartoonist) 7 Sept 2013 MAAC- 2013 Praveen Kumar 21 Oct 2013 Best of R. K. Laxman ... 12 Oct 2013 The Political Pickle : Shreyas Navare Ajitha G.S. 9 Nov 2013 Suraj ESKAY Sriram Athmaram N. Gangaram 7 Dec 2013 Music Sketches by Keshav M.R.V.Prasad 28 Dec 2013 Sai Swaroop Appajayya
Exhibitions : 2014
Date Cartoonist/s Inaugurated by 18 Jan 2014 Hemant Morparia Sudha Pillai, Editor, Bangalore Mirror 8 Feb 2014 Comics by Pran ... 1 Mar 2014 V. G. Narendra ... 22 Mar 2014 Swinging in the 1970s : Paul Fernandes Ponnappa Subbaiah 12 Apr 2014 Run up to the Election-2014 : Ranjan Somaiah Chiranjeev Singh 3 May 2014 International Cartoons Dr. R.H. Kulkarni 24 May 2014 Break the Taboo about Toilets and Sanitation ... 14 Jun 2014 100th Cartoon Exhibition H.S. Balram, Director, Asianet 13th Sept 2014 Wild Life the Toony Way : Rohan ChakravarthyWildlife the Toonie Way ConservationIndia.org : 13 September 2014 ... 6 Oct 2014 Remembering Vins, Pran & Bapu ... 27 Oct 2014 Faces : R. K. Laxman's Caricatures ... 17 Nov 2014 Alok Nirantar Ramachandra Guha 6 Dec 2014 Edua Szucs (Hungarian lady cartoonist) Chiranjeev Singh 27 Dec 2014 Frederick Joss, London S.G. Vasudev
Exhibitions : 2015
Date Cartoonist/s Inaugurated by 31 Jan 2015 Satish Acharya Raobail 22 Feb 2015 Pickels & Lota by Goda Anirudh Raghvan M N Venkatachaliah, N. Murali 14 Mar 2015 Sanket Gurudatta M.A. Ponnappa, Chairman Karnataka Media Academy 6 Apr 2015 Your Autograph Please : Caricatures by Ranga ... 25 Apr 2015 Smile with Melvin Mathew (India born US Cartoonist) ... 16 May 2015 MKMA-2014 (Foreign Cartoons) Prof. S Settar 3 June 2015 MKMA-2014 (Indian Cartoons) Dr. H N Suresh, Director, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavana 1 July 2015 London-250 Years Ago : William Hogarth ... 5 Aug 2015 Pocket cartoons of Mario Miranda ... 5 Sep 2015 Selected works of S.D. Phadnis ... 31 Oct 2015 Cartoons Karnataka 2015 M. Shivakumar, Editor, Aparanji 21 Nov 2015 Caricatures India (Selected work) ... 10 Dec 2015 Funtoons : Vldimir Kazanevski, Ukraine ...
Exhibitions : 2016 Date Cartoonist/s Inaugurated by 2 Jan 2016 Vakra Kirana by Kantesh M. Badiger EventsHigh.com : 2 January 2016 P. Rajendra 23 Jan 2016 START-UP R. K. Laxman from Koravanji Usha Srinivas Laxman, M. Shivakumar, Beluru Ramamurthy 13 Feb 2016 Sukumar & Mohanachandran Vasant Kulkarni 5 Mar 2016 WOMAN'S RIGHTS International Cartoon Contest by Toons Mag, Norway Aruna C. Newton 26 Mar 2016 REFUGEES cartoon exhibition Organisor: Kimse Yak Mu, Turkey Chiranjeev Singh, Vedat Oruc 24 Apr 2016 S.V. Padmanabha Sugata Srinivasaraju 4 Jun 2016 9th Anniversary of IIC : 125th cartoon exhibition U.V. Vasantha Rao, Ritu Gairola Khanduri 9 July 2016 Sir David Low ... 6 Aug 2016 Karnataka as seen by Mario ... 3 Sept 2016 Nirmish Thaker (Jnanapith Awardee) Chandrashekhar Kambara (Jnanapith Awardee) 15 Oct 2016 Unpublished R.K. LaxmanLaxman's unpublished doodles to go on display in Bengaluru The Hindu : 14 October 2016 ... 12 Nov 2016 Smile with Nadig ... 10 Dec 2016 World of Raobail ...
Exhibitions : 2017
Duration Date Cartoonist/s Inaugurated by 07-28 Jan 2017 Cartoons and Future Lens by Shekhar GureraDoodle-Do (Listing) Bangalore Mirror, Bangalore, 31 December 2016. Parvati Gurera 4-25 Feb 2017 World of B. V. RamamurthyWhat's New 2017 BestCartoons.net : Personal ExhibitionEvents in Bengaluru Today The Hindu / 3 February 2017 ... Mar 11 - Apr 1, 2017 James Vaz Shivaram Apr 8-22, 2017 Yesudasan ... Apr 29 - May 20, 2017 Freedom of Expression: International Cartoons by Toons Mag Dr Satyabhama Badhreenath May 27 - Jun 10, 2017 Smitha Bhandare Kamat Dr Deepti Navaratna Jun 14 - Jul 15, 2017 10th Anniversary of IIC; MKMA-2016 (Indian and Foreign)IIC to train budding cartoonists The Hindu Bangalore : 8 June 2017 A Kheny, G Karnad, S G Vasudev, A Kamath, Keshav Sept 9-30, 2017 Tuktuk's World by Shreyas Navare ... 28 Oct- Nov 18, 2017 Telugu Cartoonotsavam by Heartoonists (Telugu Cartoonists)Telugu Cartoonotsavam in city from 28 Oct Deccan Herald, Bangalore : 18 Oct 2017 Dr Satyabhama Badhreenath, Dr Jayadev Babu
Exhibitions : 2018