Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Iyer Laxman'  (born 24 October 1921, Mysore, India) is an Indian cartoonist, illustrator, and humorist.

CHILDHOOD:

Laxman was engrossed by the illustrations in magazines such as The Strand Magazine, Punch, Bystander, Wide World and Tit-Bits, even before he could read. Soon he was drawing on his own, on the floors, walls and doors of his house and doodling caricatures of his teachers at school; praised by a teacher for his drawing of a peepal leaf, he began to think of himself as an artist in the making. Another early influence on Laxman were the cartoons of the world-renowned British cartoonist, Sir David Low (whose signature he misread as "cow" for a long time) that appeared now and then in The Hindu.

HIS WORDS:

 Laxman notes in his autobiography, The Tunnel of Time:

I drew objects that caught my eye outside the window of my room - the dry twigs, leaves and lizard-like creatures crawling about, the servant chopping firewood and, of course, and number of crows in various postures on the rooftops of the buildings opposite  He organised an Art Exhibition in Mumbai. R K Laxman Chair at Symbiosis International University There is a chair named after R. K. Laxman at Symbiosis International University.