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{{Infobox person
| name = Mickey Patel
| birth_date = 1941
| birth_place = Lahore, Pakistan
| death_date = 1994
| occupation = cartoonist, painter, designer, illustrator
| education = Economics
| alma_mater = [[St. Stephen's College, Delhi]]
}}

'''Mickey Patel''' (1941–1994) was an [[India]]n [[cartoonist]] and [[illustrator]] OF books and magazines, as well as a [[painter]] and [[designer]]. He was born in 1941 in [[Lahore]], which is now part of [[Pakistan]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Design In India|url=http://www.designinindia.net/design-thoughts/masters/mickey-patel/index.html}}</ref> and studied economics at [[St. Stephen's College, Delhi]]. In a tribute to Mickey Patel in [[Outlook (Indian magazine)|Outlook magazine]], Shobhita Punjia wrote that Mickey "only made it to evening art classes, but was soon drawing cartoons for ''[[Shankar's Weekly]]'' and ''Yojana'', later trying to make a living by working with advertising firms — [[Lintas]], Thompson, ASP and Clarion".<ref>{{cite journal|last=Punjia|first=Shobhita|title=Lighter Side of Life|journal=Outlook Magazine|date=26 January 1998|url=http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?204948}}</ref> According to Punjia, besides the illustrations he was best known for, Patel also worked as a [[Visualizer (advertising)|visualiser]] and [[Animated film|animated]] [[Filmmaking|film-maker]]. His work was shown in international exhibitions and he won many awards, including the Noma Concours awarded by [[UNESCO]] for picture book illustrations, which he was nominated for three times (1978, 1984, 1986).<ref>{{cite web|title=Noma Concours for Picture Book Illustrations 1978-2008|url=http://www.accu.or.jp/noma/english/map/e_index.html|publisher=Asia /Pacific Cultural Centre for UNESCO}}</ref>

As a freelance illustrator and cartoonist, Patel worked for newspapers and magazines such as [[India Today]], [[Reader's Digest#Indian edition|Reader's Digest]], [[Business Standard]], [[Hindustan Times]], [[Illustrated Weekly of India]], as well as clients such as [[Air India]], [[UNICEF]], [[Oxford University Press|Oxford University Press (OUP)]], [[India Tourism Development Corporation|India Tourism Development Corporation (ITDC)]], and [[National Council of Educational Research and Training|National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT)]], among others.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://books.google.com/?id=an9DAAAAYAAJ&q=%22mickey+patel%22+illustrated&dq=%22mickey+patel%22+illustrated |journal=India International Centre Quarterly |volume=18 |year=1991 |title=Mickey Patel|publisher=India International Centre |accessdate=3 November 2015}}</ref> He also did humorous greeting cards for Vakils in the 1960s, and cartoons for the ''Patriot'', some of which can be seen in the ''[http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/amit/books/abraham-1989-penguin-book-of.html Penguin Book of Indian Cartoons]'' (1988).

Patel illustrated several children's books by Indian authors such as [[Ruskin Bond]] (''Snake Trouble'') and Sigrun Srivastava (''The Ghost Rider of Darbhanga''), as well as his own ''The Story of a Panther'', published posthumously. Patel, as well as several other [[New Delhi]] illustrators, produced work for the [[National Book Trust]]. His titles for the National Book Trust include ''1 to 10'', ''The Best Thirteen'', ''Stories From Bapu's Life'', ''Rupa the Elephant'', which were published in English, Hindi and other translated editions.

==Work==

===Written and illustrated===
*''[https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2312488W/1_to_10_procession 1 to 10 Procession: A Number Book]'' by Mickey Patel (author, illustrator) (National Book Trust, 1985)
*''[https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2312490W/Rupa_the_elephant Rupa the Elephant]'' by Mickey Patel (author, illustrator) (National Book Trust, 1974)
*''[https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2312491W/Story_of_a_Panther The Story of a Panther]'' by Mickey Patel (author, illustrator) ([[Puffin Books]], Ravi Dayal)

===Illustrated===
*''Culture Shock! India'' by Gitanjali Kolanad, illustrated by Mickey Patel
*''Dhammak Dham - Bachchon ke Geet'' by [[Kamla Bhasin]], illustrated by Mickey Patel (Jagori)
*''Let's Do a Play'' by [[Uma Anand]], illustrated by Mickey Patel (National Book Trust)
*''Mahatma Gandhi: A Story of Our Time and For All Time'' by Maurice David Japheth, illustrated by Mickey Patel. (Pearl Publications, 1968)
*''Putki on Her Way to China'' by Sigrun Srivastava, illustrated by Mickey Patel
*''Snake trouble'' by [[Ruskin Bond]], illustrated by Mickey Patel (National Book Trust)
*''Sona's Adventures'' by Tara Tiwari, illustrated by Mickey Patel (National Book Trust)
*''Stories from Bapu's life'' by Uma Shankar Joshi, illustrated by Mickey Patel (National Book Trust, 1973)
*''Story of the Road'', by [[Poile Sengupta]], illustrated by Mickey Patel
*''[https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2312489W/The_Best_Thirteen The Best Thirteen]'', short story anthology, illustrated by Mickey Patel (National Book Trust)
*''[https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Royal_journey_to_heaven.html?id=1DliPgAACAAJ&redir_esc=y The Royal Journey to Heaven]'' by [[Manoj Das]], illustrated by Mickey Patel (Asian Cultural Centre for UNESCO)
*''The Secret of Sickle-Moon Mountain'' by Margaret R. Bhatty, illustrated by Mickey Patel
*''The Ghost Rider of Darbhanga and Other Stories'' by Sigrun Srivastav, illustrated by Mickey Patel
*''Titbits for Tiki'' by Pratibha Nath, illustrated by Mickey Patel ([[Children's Book Trust]])
* ''Ped'' by [[Safdar Hashmi]], illustrated by Mickey Patel (Sahmat Prakashan, 1996)
* ''Nanhi pari ka janmdin'', by Jayanti Adhikari, illustrated by Mickey Patel (Children's Book Trust, 1994)

==References==
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