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| Cartoon Character PRince |
The
cute little cartoon character, PRince has been adding value and humour to your
ezine, PreSense for the past five years.
He has been conveying powerful messages with a sense of humour. The creation and the journey of PRince is
interesting and amazing.
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| Triambak Sharma |
In July 2008, on Dr Abdul Kalam’s suggestion, the editorial team decided to introduce cartoons in the ezine. When we made an announcement to the effect in the PrPoint group, Mr Triambak Sharma, a well-known cartoonist from Raipur and the editor of Cartoonwatch volunteered to provide cartoons for the ezine every month. Instead of publishing regular assorted cartoons, the editorial team decided on a cartoon character, on the lines of R K Laxman’s ‘Comman Man’, to convey the message.
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| Announcement in prpoint group |
On 3rd July 2008, the editorial
team made an announcement about its idea, in the groups, and invited
suggestions from the members, and also a suitable name for the character. The team received an overwhelming response of
100 suggested names. The suggestion
given by Ms Uma, a communication professional to name the character ‘PRince’
received unanimous approval of the editorial team. ‘Prince’ was introduced to the
groups on 10th July 2008.
“I
wanted PRince to be the youth icon of this 21st century, as a
representative of the professionals working in corporate and other
offices. Hence, I created him as an
energetic young person a wearing trendy outfit with necktie. I am proud that PRince was born in Raipur”, says
Triambak Sharma proudly.
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| Dr Abdul Kalam launching cartoon character |
The
first cartoon, created by Triambak Sharma, was launched by Dr Abdul Kalam
himself with his autograph, on 24th July 2008 at Rajbhavan, Chennai. The cartoon character was created and
launched within 20 days of the editorial team’s decision to include the cartoon
in the ezine.
Every
edition of the ezine from July 2008 onwards contains the PRince cartoon. In every issue, PRince conveyed a powerful
message with a sense of humour. Thus,
PRince won itself many fans. PRince
became popular worldwide.
In
April 2010, The Wall Street Journal of America, carried one of the PRince cartoons
with the permission of Triambak Sharma.
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| Wall Street Journal carrying PRince cartoon |
The
popularity of PRince grew day by day, both nationally and internationally.
In May
2010, a CD containing the PRince cartoons was released on the occasion of the
launch of the Golden Jubilee edition (50th) of ezine. it was also
displayed on the internet.
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| PRince cartoon Feb 2011 |
PRince who
was a Casanova till then, married his sweetheart ‘PRincess’ in the Diamond
Jubilee 60th edition, published in February 2011 (picture on the
right). “Only married people can understand the problems of the common person
and communicate in a mature manner.
Subsequent to his marriage, PRince started talking about many serious
issues affecting the common citizen”, says Triambak Sharma when asked why PRince
married hastily. The readers could
notice that after the 61st edition, PRince conveyed more serious
messages than what he used to, before his marriage.
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| Dr Abdul Kalam's speech referring PRince |
Interestingly,
Dr A P J Abdul Kalam himself is one of the great fans of PRince. While
addressing the Cartoon Festival at New Delhi on 29th April 2011, Dr
Abdul Kalam suggested that cartoonists should be remembered for creating
cartoon characters like ‘Common Man’ and ‘PRince’.
In the Cartoon Festival organised at Raipur
(Chhattisgarh) on 29th June 2013, Dr Raman Singh, the Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh was the Chief
Guest. A video poresentation on the
cartoon character PRince was shown to the Hon’ble Chief Minister and to the
audience. A CD containing the past 55
cartoons published in the ezine from July 2008 to June 2013 was also handed
over to Dr Raman Singh, the Chief Minister by Triambak Sharma. The Chief Minister highly appreciated the
concept of cartoon character and enjoyed the PRince cartoons.
The past 75 editions of ezine PreSense and the ebook on PRince cartoons can be downloaded from the link.
http://goo.gl/5zTJC
Please watch a brief video presentation on the PRince cartoon.
While
Mumbai can be proud of ‘Common Man’ created by R K Laxman, Raipur can now be
proud of Triambak’s ‘PRince’.
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