Ashok Rajagopalan

Ashok Rajagopalan (also known under the blogging pseudonym Kenny Wordsmith) is an Indian writer and artist for over 500 children's books.[1] Rajagopalan has also worked as a graphic designer, freelance cartoonist, and has contributed to the children's magazines Impulse Hoot and Impulse Toot.[2] He first began illustrating children's stories with a piece in the 1989 magazine Junior Quest.[3] Before working in illustration Rajagopalan received a mechanical engineering diploma and worked as a marketing executive, but found that he disliked the experience.[4] In 2011 he participated in a Kickstarter campaign to fund a comic he was co-creating with the artist Asvin Srivatsangam entitled Neelakshi:The Quest for Amrit.[5]

Neelakshi:The Quest for Amrit will be published Yali Dream Creations by end of 2013.

He will be working on Yali Dream Creations' first novel with a tentative title 'Kandiva'.

Selected bibliography

Authored:[6]

Illustrated & Authored:

Illustrated:

References

  1. "Comic books and graphic novels as much a piece of art as anything else". The Hindu. Jul 26, 2009. Retrieved 22 September 2013.
  2. Thomas, Liffy (September 24, 2010). "Keeping the child in him alive". The Hindu. Retrieved 22 September 2013.
  3. Vijay, Hema (Aug 11, 2013). "Variety is the art of life". Deccan Herald. Retrieved 22 September 2013.
  4. "Colours of innocence". The Hindu. July 25, 2013. Retrieved 22 September 2013.
  5. "Neelakshi: The Quest for Amrit". Kickstarter. Retrieved 22 September 2013.
  6. "F-Page - Ashok Rajagopalan". PlusMinus'n'More. Retrieved 5 December 2014.

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