Nasreen Sultana Mitu (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
নাসরীন সুলতানা মিতু Edit this on Wikidata
Born1987 Edit this on Wikidata
Bangladesh Edit this on Wikidata
OccupationCartoonist, science teacher Edit this on Wikidata

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

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  1. ^ a b Lent, John A. (2023). Asian political cartoons. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. p. 210. ISBN 978-1-4968-4252-7.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Comics, Dhaka. "About". Dhaka Comics. Retrieved 2024-04-02.
  4. ^ a b "Governance - CARTOONISTS RIGHTS". 2023-05-18. Retrieved 2024-04-02.
  5. ^ "Bangladesh Cartoonist Association demands release of Kishore". New Age | The Most Popular Outspoken English Daily in Bangladesh. Retrieved 2024-04-03.