Vidooshakanstarted publication in the year 1919. Edited by PS Neelakanta Pillai, it was printed at the Manomohanam Press in Quilon (present day Kollam, a district in Kerala). Later on, it was published from Vidyavilasam Press in Paravur (another town in Quilon). Cartoonist Sudheernath assumes that this must have been because of the ease of printing images at Vidyavilasam, considering the fact that the first cartoon in Vidooshakan as well as in Malayalam was printed here.
Vidooshakan was also committed towards freedom of the press, and came out in support of its compatriots. In 1922, a notice was issued by the government against Kerala Chandrika (a journal published from Kollam, representing the Malayali Muslims), accusing it of insulting the British government. Responding to this act in the strongest of words, Vidooshakan said that having read the said article, it could not find anything insulting towards the British government.
In that sense, Vidooshakan reminds us how the media used to be responsible about what it wrote and the position that it took. It is also a reminder for us as the public to expect more from the current media.
As mentioned earlier, studies on cartoons and their history are quite scant in Kerala in particular. The scenario is not really very different across the country. When one reads this alongside the fact that this medium has a rich and vast heritage in the state of Kerala as well as India as a whole, the starkness of this situation becomes clearer. One important reason for this is the difficulties in collecting the materials.
Whether it is the microfilms or dusty and crumbling bound volumes, our conservation methods are hardly reader friendly. In fact these methods hardly conserve these precious materials at the first place. There have been several instances where pages containing cartoons were found to be torn off, during my material collection. In certain instances, the cartoons published on the cover pages were lost because the binders tore the cover off while binding the volumes.
Toms was born to Vaadakkal Thoppil Kunjuthomman Kunjithomman and Sicily Thomas on 6 June 1929 in Kuttanad. He completed his graduation from St. Berchmans College, Changanassery. Later he joined the army as an electrician and left the job soon. He then devoted his career completely to drawing cartoons. His elder brother Peter Thomas was his inspiration behind drawings. Peter was a cartoonist at Shankar's Weekly at that time.[1][2] Toms started his career in 1950 through Sathyadeepam, a Catholic weekly and Kerala Kaumudi. He then joined Malayala Manorama in 1955.[3]
Toms created the Malayalam cartoon characters Boban and Molly, the brother sister duos accompanied by a tiny puppy based on two real life persons of the same name. They were two children from his neighborhood and he discovered them in his 30s. Boban and Molly (ബബനു മളയു) first appeared in the cartoon column of Sathyadeepam. Later the characters became more popular through Malayala Manorama. They were first published in 1957.He resigned from Manorama in 1987 and started Toms Publications.[4]
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A comic strip is a sequence of cartoons, arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions. Traditionally, throughout the 20th and into the 21st century, these have been published in newspapers and magazines, with daily horizontal strips printed in black-and-white in newspapers, while Sunday papers offered longer sequences in special color comics sections. With the advent of the internet, online comic strips began to appear as webcomics.
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