N. Ponnappa
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Nala Ponnappa is a freelance cartoonist. His works have appeared in many major journals of India over the decades.
Ponnappa is a Kodava (Coorg) born in Mangalore in 1948 as the son of Nadikerianda C 'Mittoo' Subbaiah and (nee Neravanda) Ponnamma, both school teachers. His paternal grandfather was Nadikerianda Chinnappa, the compiler of the Pattole Palame. Ponnappa's early education was in Mangalore, Pune, and Chennai. He graduated in architecture and went to Chicago for higher studies, where he first started drawing cartoons for his college magazine.[1]
Career
After a 11-year stint from 1970 to 1981 as an architect in Chennai where he worked for Geoffrey Bawa, and in Delhi, and Lagos, he switched to cartooning full time. In India his cartoons first appeared in India Today, in 1976.[2]
