E. P. Unny E.P. Unny grew up in Palakkad, Kerala. His first cartoon
appeared in the legendary Shankar s
Weekly in 1972. He began his cartooning career with The Hindu in Chennai in 1977. In 1989 he moved to New Delhi where
after a stint with Sunday Mail and The Economic Times, he joined The Indian Express in 1996, where he is
Chief Political Cartoonist. He has sketched and written several books and
serialised Free India, a graphic
novel, in the Sunday Express in 1997,
which is an early graphic storyteller in Malayalam. His work has featured at
the Asian Cartoonists Conference in Tokyo and at the International Cartoon
Festival in Carquefou, France. In 2009, Unny won the Lifetime Achievement Award
of The Indian Institute of Cartoonists.
