About K V Gautam

A self-taught Indian cartoonist, K V Gautam started to draw cartoons right from his early childhood. He got his cartoons on political events published in several journals including fortnightly Khojbin and monthly Cartoon Watch, while still pursuing his graduation. A graduate in Economics and post graduate in Mass Communications, he began his career with the daily Dainik Jagran. He drew cartoons on political and social issues of the country. He also worked for newspapers like the Indian Nation, Hindustan, Aaj and Aryavarta.

Gautam has illustrated several books on sports, biographies, management, cinema and other subjects. He illustrated a series of biographies of celebrities like A P J Abdul Kalam, A B Vajpayee, Dhirubhai Ambani, Kapil Dev, Ratan Tata, NR Narayana Murthy, Sachin Tendulkar and Azim Premji, published by the Pentagon Paperbacks. In 2003, he illustrated a best-selling book 2003: World Cup Cricket: Action Replay 1983? A coffee-table book The Eternal Saga of Love: Devdas was also illustrated by him. A fine caricaturist, he drew caricatures of several travel trade personalities for The World of Travel & Tourism, a travel trade journal. He also drew cartoons for the job site Naukriindia.com. Recently he illustrated the book “The Power of Humor at the Workplace” written by K Sathyanarayana.

Born on December 15, 1979, K V Gautam has won many contests on drawing and painting. In 1994, he was awarded with the First Prize in the Poster Contest on the theme of population control, organized by the Population Education Fund of the State Government. He was awarded with Certificate of Merit in the national contest of International Poster Contest – 1993 on the theme of Population and Our World, jointly organized by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the National Council of Educational Research & Training (NCERT).

In the year 2008, he was invited to organize a Cartoon Workshop by BITS Pilani, one of top 5 engineering colleges of India.