Cartoonist Nathan

K. Somanathan Nair, popularly known as cartoonist Nathan was born on 31st January 1944 in Panthaplakkal House, Kanam as the elder son of Mr.Kunjukrishna Panicker and Mrs. P.C.Janamma. He had his school education CMS LPS & UPS Kanam. He had his HS studies from MDS Kottayam &SVRVHS Theerthapadapuram. He studied in CMS College Kottayam for PDC. Then he studied Mechanical Engineering in Govt.Politechnic Kalamassery. He got employed in HMT Kalamassery in 1963. He took VRS in 1933.His first Cartoon appeared in Kumkumam weekly (Kollam) in 1965. After that his works appeared in various dailies like Kerala Times (Kochi) Express (Trichur) Manorama(Kottayam),Deepika (Kottayam),Kerala Kaumudi (Trivandrum) and Desabhimani (Kochi) Candrika (Calicut) and also in periodicals like Kerala Sabdam, Vanitha, Kala Kaumudi, Pakkanar, Vikada Kesari, Narmada, Manorama Comics etc . From 1971 his cartoons appeared in National level in prestigious periodicals like Sankar’s weekly, Blitz, Indian express etc. Number of caricatures of Politicians both in National and state levesl were drawn by Nathan. He used to write humorous middle pieces in Editorial pages of Manorama deepika(Idavila) and in Manorajyam (Hitlist) Marakayudham No2 was his first anthology of Political Cartoons. Cartoon History of Politics in Kerala is in preparation. For sometime he was the producer of Nest Animation-Akamporul. During the National emergency days one of the issues of Keralakaumudi daily appeared only with a political cartoon by Nathan in Editorial space . There was no text at all. This is said to be great honour for the cartoonist and no other cartoonist got this rare chance. Nathan is the only cartoonist that draws the front view of Politicians like A.K .Antoney and K.M Mani .Now he is leading a retired like near NSS Hs Anickadu in a beautiful heritage house called sagarika where there is facility for home-stay for foreigners. He is married to Geetha. His son Renjith is an Officer in Indian Navy and daughter Kavitha is an Engineer in Canada. Ponnu and Niveditha are his grand children
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