Nasreen Sultana Mitu (born 1987) is a Bangladeshi political cartoonist, caricaturist, and science educator who signs her work with the name Mitu. She is the most prominent female cartoonist in Bangladesh.[1]
Nasreen Sultana Mitu | |
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নাসরীন সুলতানা মিতু  | |
| Born | 1987 Bangladesh |
| Occupation | Cartoonist, science teacher |
Nasreen Sultana Mitu was born in 1987 in Bangladesh. She began cartooning in 2006.[2] Most of her work has appeared in the satirical magazine Unmad and the daily newspaper New Age. One of her most widely circulated cartoons was from 2013, where she depicted a pair of jeans with a blood-stained price tag in response to the deaths of garment workers in the Rana Plaza collapse.[1] She serves as an editor at Unmad and Dhaka Comics.[3]
Mitu was an assistant professor at the University of Rajshahi until 2018. She founded Project Tiktaalik in 2018 to develop cartoon-based science education materials.[4]
She serves on the board of Cartoonists Rights Network International[4] and is a member of the Bangladesh Cartoonist Association.[5]
References
edit- ^ a b Lent, John A. (2023). Asian political cartoons. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. p. 210. ISBN 978-1-4968-4252-7.
- ^ DIREZ, Valérie (2018-02-03). "Free speech : Draw to move the rows! Meet Mitu , the cartoonist from Bangladesh ! – Le Crayon" (in French). Retrieved 2024-04-02.
- ^ Comics, Dhaka. "About". Dhaka Comics. Retrieved 2024-04-02.
- ^ a b "Governance - Cartoonists Rights". 2023-05-18. Retrieved 2024-04-02.
- ^ "Bangladesh Cartoonist Association demands release of Kishore". New Age. Retrieved 2024-04-03.