One of the joys of the mid to late 70s was the Wednesdays, when my father used to bring the weekend issue of The Illustrated Weekly of India from his office library. There were two half pages for immediate consumption, and one more for the next day – after returning from school, and no one used to be about.
The last shall remain undisclosed – but if you are really interested just Google for ‘lehigh university illustrated weekly of India’. The first was the comic strip The Phantom by Lee Falk. The second was the cartoon by Mario Miranda.
Mario João Carlos do Rosario de Brito Miranda (2 May 1926 – 11 December 2011) born in the then Portuguese Goa was the quintessential foil to the other great cartoonist R.K. Laxman who was also with The Times of India then.
Mario Miranda’s cartoons were full of interactions between various characters. It was almost like spot-six-differences, with the added pleasure of figuring out the hidden stories. Seldom would you find a Mario Miranda cartoon without an animal – the ever reliable spotted dog, the black cat or the crow.
So it was real pleasure to once again view a Mario Miranda like cartoon as a Google Doodle on what would have been his 90th birthday. Here is the doodle, depicting a rainy day in Mumbai.
Have a smile, for Mario Miranda must be busy doodling the Saints – He once said, ‘My earliest victims, the priests, used to hate me. I replaced them with politicians. You will find much in common between them - their size, attitudes, even their sermonising!’
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The last shall remain undisclosed – but if you are really interested just Google for ‘lehigh university illustrated weekly of India’. The first was the comic strip The Phantom by Lee Falk. The second was the cartoon by Mario Miranda.
Mario João Carlos do Rosario de Brito Miranda (2 May 1926 – 11 December 2011) born in the then Portuguese Goa was the quintessential foil to the other great cartoonist R.K. Laxman who was also with The Times of India then.
Mario Miranda’s cartoons were full of interactions between various characters. It was almost like spot-six-differences, with the added pleasure of figuring out the hidden stories. Seldom would you find a Mario Miranda cartoon without an animal – the ever reliable spotted dog, the black cat or the crow.
So it was real pleasure to once again view a Mario Miranda like cartoon as a Google Doodle on what would have been his 90th birthday. Here is the doodle, depicting a rainy day in Mumbai.
Have a smile, for Mario Miranda must be busy doodling the Saints – He once said, ‘My earliest victims, the priests, used to hate me. I replaced them with politicians. You will find much in common between them - their size, attitudes, even their sermonising!’
Tags: mario-miranda
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