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> 13) Who make fun of teachers:
> e.g. Father (a teacher) is in a deep ba'ta'Kanii with his
> next door friend. His son came there facing his dad
> and showed him the slate saying :
> "na'nna'! ii lekka correctO ka'dO ceppu."
> It is written on the slate "nanna'! amma a' pakkimTa'yanni
> pampEsi lOnaki vacci tiPin tinamamTOmdi."
That's a cute one, but of course the classic on that theme is Bapu's
buDugu:
"abbaa, ii mIsaala vaaLLu eppuDu pOtarO, tiphin challaaripOtOndi"
That one is absolutely on-target!
(I am of course paraphrasing from memory, so it is not as funny as the
actual one.)
>
> 14) Who make fun of cine stars
> 15) Who make fun of politicians
> 16) Who make fun of India and other nations:
> When Appollo 13 reached moon, there was a cartoon in Andhra Patrika.
> This simply was a globe with India and America on it.
> America was shouting "Apollo" and India was shouting "appulO".
> That was something.
> 17) Who make fun of hair styles and dresses and fashions
> e.g. One time during 1970s, boys used to wear shirts with designs
> like flowers, twigs, branches, leaves and all the green world.
> Also they used to have bushy hair (like the one I have).
> One boy was wearing a shirt with flower branch design with
> birds on them and a real bird was nesting in his hair.
> My dad used to bring that example whenever I used to wear
> a flower design shirt.
> 18) Who draw cartoons on in laws (son, daughter, mother, father)
> 19) Who draw cartoons for all festive occassions - samkra'mti,
> deepa'vaLI, uga'di, samkra'mti, hOLi etc.
> This is unique in our Andhra dESa.
There is another category I can think of--playing on words and phrases, and
a similar category, playing on onomatopaeia (words that represent real-world
sounds). The latter are very very popular for dipaavaLi special issues, for
obvious reasons. I dimly recall a cartoonist "baabu" who did dipaavaLi
cartoons and signed them "baa (m) bu".
In the former (playing on words and phrases) category, I
can only think of one example that stands out in my memory--
Cartoon shows a man (actor) being sucked into a pot.
Caption: "aayana paatralO lInamai naTistaaru mari."
Unfortunately I don't remember the cartoonist's name. The example you gave
in 16 (Apollo->appulO) can also be classified under this "wordplay" category.
While the example is a clear usage of word/phrase play, in general such play
finds widespread use as a technique of the cartoonist for delivering the
punch.
....
> as Vaddadi drew his pictures for the stories. Of course,
> Chitra took over afterwards. Who is this Chitra? I don't
> know. Neither the Candamama publishers did talk about their Chitra.
> Bhogaparapu Bhadrachalam (of Parlakimedi), known as Chalam or BChalam
> (who is the art director in Film industry, Madras for movies such
> as Nippulanti Manishi etc), used to draw pictures for Chandamama
> also.
Many years ago (in the 60s) Chandamama used to have a questions and answers
feature (as did Balamitra) in which the editorial staff would address questions
from readers on every topic under the, er, moon! In one of these Q&A features
they were asked about the Chandamama artists vapaa, chitra and Shankar
(of that period) and they replied with a brief intro of them.
(Digression: I don't know how many people think of Chandamama as a "mere"
children's magazine. To me, the contributions it made to the growth of
knowledge as well as to the development of an easy and elegant style
are nothing short of astounding. We probably don't often think of this
aspect of the contributions of Kodavatiganti Kutumba Rao (along with
Nagi Reddy and ChakrapaNi) but I really believe that no evaluation of the
growth of a modern "telugu intellect" can be complete without taking
Chandamama into account.)
Bapa Rao