Prakash Shetty


Prakash Shetty is an Indian cartoonist and caricaturist known for his Spot caricaturing.

Personal life

Prakash Shetty was born in Mangalore, Karnataka on 1 April 1960. He earned a degree in Bachelor of Arts.

Career

He started drawing cartoons at the age of 15. He started his career with a Kannada magazine called Santhosha and later an English daily called The Times Of Deccan and Mungaru Kannada Daily. He settled as cartoonist with The Week. Kitoo is a comic serial with a boy as the main character. It has been published in multiple magazines for 15 years. He joined The Week as a cartoon illustrator in 1990's and left in 2001.
He worked as an independent spot caricaturist and freelancer. He edited a cartoon humor magazine called 'Vaarekore'in Kannada language for a while. His cartoons were published in the book of Indian Cartoonists. From 2001 to 2012 did spot caricaturing events travelling all over India and abroad. He set a record by drawing 150 spot caricatures in 10 hours. His cartoon murals can be seen on the walls of hotels and houses. At present he is working as an editorial cartoonist for 'Prajavani', a Kannada newspaper.