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'.

  1. ^ "Comic books and graphic novels as much a piece of art as anything else". The Hindu. 26 July 2009. Archived from the original on 29 July 2009. Retrieved 22 September 2013.
  2. ^ Thomas, Liffy (24 September 2010). "Keeping the child in him alive". The Hindu. Retrieved 22 September 2013.
  3. ^ Vijay, Hema (11 August 2013). "Variety is the art of life". Deccan Herald. Retrieved 22 September 2013.
  4. ^ "Colours of innocence". The Hindu. 25 July 2013. Retrieved 22 September 2013.
  5. ^ "Neelakshi: The Quest for Amrit". Kickstarter. Retrieved 22 September 2013.