<p>Eminent cartoonist Pran Kumar Sharma, who gave life to comic book characters like Chacha Chaudhary and his friend Sabu, breathed his last on Wednesday after an eight-month battle with cancer. <br /><br /></p>.<p>Pran died at a hospital in Gurgaon at the age of 75, according to his publisher Diamond Comics. “Pran passed away at 9 am at the Medanta hospital. He had been suffering from cancer of the intestine for the past eight months. He is survived by a son and a daughter,” said Gulshan Rai from Diamond Comics.<br /><br />The Twitter account of the Prime Minister’s Office expressed grief over the celebrated cartoonist’s death on behalf of Narendra Modi. “The PM described Shri Pran Kumar Sharma as a versatile cartoonist who brought smiles on the faces of people through his rich work,” the @PMOIndia tweet read.<br /><br />Pran was born in Kasur near Lahore in Pakistan and began his career in 1960 at a Delhi-based newspaper with his first comic strip “Daabu”. He rose to fame in 1969 when he sketched a Chacha Chaudhary comic strip for Hindi magazine “Lotpot”.<br /><br />“Pran was making small cartoons for newspapers when I first contacted him in 1981. At that time there were no Indian comics, it was all reproductions of foreign titles,” his publisher said.<br /></p>
<p>Eminent cartoonist Pran Kumar Sharma, who gave life to comic book characters like Chacha Chaudhary and his friend Sabu, breathed his last on Wednesday after an eight-month battle with cancer. <br /><br /></p>.<p>Pran died at a hospital in Gurgaon at the age of 75, according to his publisher Diamond Comics. “Pran passed away at 9 am at the Medanta hospital. He had been suffering from cancer of the intestine for the past eight months. He is survived by a son and a daughter,” said Gulshan Rai from Diamond Comics.<br /><br />The Twitter account of the Prime Minister’s Office expressed grief over the celebrated cartoonist’s death on behalf of Narendra Modi. “The PM described Shri Pran Kumar Sharma as a versatile cartoonist who brought smiles on the faces of people through his rich work,” the @PMOIndia tweet read.<br /><br />Pran was born in Kasur near Lahore in Pakistan and began his career in 1960 at a Delhi-based newspaper with his first comic strip “Daabu”. He rose to fame in 1969 when he sketched a Chacha Chaudhary comic strip for Hindi magazine “Lotpot”.<br /><br />“Pran was making small cartoons for newspapers when I first contacted him in 1981. At that time there were no Indian comics, it was all reproductions of foreign titles,” his publisher said.<br /></p>