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'''Pratap Mullick''' (born 1 July 1936)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://comixtheory.wordpress.com/legendcalendar/|title=Comix Theory Legend Calendar 2019|date=2019-03-19|website=COMIX THEORY|language=en|access-date=2019-03-24}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://comixtheory.com/|title=www.comixtheory.com|website=comixtheory.com|access-date=2019-03-24}}</ref> is an Indian illustrator and comic artist. He is best known for illustrating [[Nagraj]] of [[Raj Comics]] which gained lot of popularity under him and was later handed to [[Anupam Sinha]] who made Nagraj an actual superhero. He worked for the [[Indian comics|Indian comic]] book series [[Amar Chitra Katha]] created by writer and editor [[Anant Pai]]. Mullick drew the first 50 issues of [[Nagraj]] from 1986 until 1995.<ref>{{cite web|title=Lambiek.Net|url=http://lambiek.net/artists/m/mulick_pratap.htm}}</ref> He designed the comic-book character [[Supremo (comics)|Supremo]] (based on movie star [[Amitabh Bachchan]]), who featured in a series published for two years in the 1980s.<ref>{{cite web|title=Remembering Amitabh, the Supremo superhero|url=http://www.rediff.com/movies/slide-show/slide-show-1-pammi-bakshi-on-supremo/20091110.htm|publisher=Rediff.com}}</ref>

As a veteran illustrator, Mullick ran his own comics studio and training workshop in [[Pune]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Lent|first=John A.|title=Illustrating Asia: Comics, Humor Magazines, and Picture Books|year=2001|publisher=University of Hawaii Press|isbn=9780824824716|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SSM4r36KjuQC&q=Pratap+Mullick%22}}</ref> He is also the author of an art-instruction book ''Sketching'', which according to the publisher's website is "a condensation of Pratap Mulick’s life-long devotion to figure drawing and illustration". A blurb on the book claims that 50,000 copies have been sold till date.

[[Sanjay Gupta (comics)|Sanjay Gupta]] studio head and co-founder of [[Raj Comics]] share his work experience with Pratap Mulick, during an interview with CulturePOPcorn.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2017-08-19|title=Exclusive Interview of Sanjay Gupta : Comics is my Life, I am Comics|url=https://culturepopcorn.com/sanjay-gupta-interview-raj-comics/|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-08-04|website=CulturePOP.com|language=en-US}}</ref>

Karline McLain, a researcher who worked at the Amar Chitra Katha production offices, wrote a book which discusses the work of Amar Chitra Katha artists and records conversations with Pratap Mullick.<ref>{{cite book|last=McLain|first=Karline|title=India's immortal comic books: gods, kings, and other heroes|year=2009|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=978-0253220523|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V4-Su0whKa0C&q=Pratap+Mulick}}</ref>

==Work==
===As Author and Illustrator===
*''[http://www.jyotsnaprakashan.com/index.php?option=com_zoo&task=item&item_id=533&Itemid=243 Sketching]'' by Pratap Mullick (Jyotsna Prakashan)

== Awards & Recognitions ==
Late. Pratap Mullick is featured as Indian comics legend creative in the Legend Calendar 2019 released by Comix Theory in jan, 2019. He is featured on the front cover of the legend calendar.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://comixtheory.com/|title=LEGEND CALENDAR 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://comixtheory.wordpress.com/legendcalendar/|title=COMIX THEORY LEGEND CALENDAR 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.officialeverestworldrecords.com/Social%20Awareness.html|title=Most Girl Students participated in Workshop for creating One Page Comics on Girls' Empowerment}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://naiduniaepaper.jagran.com/epaper/09-feb-2019-40-edition-chhindwara-page-1.html|title=Chhindwara ePaper:Chhindwara Daily Newspaper,Chhindwara Hindi Newspaper,Chhindwara Online Newspaper - Naidunia ePaper|website=naiduniaepaper.jagran.com|access-date=2019-03-24}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://epaper.rashtriyahindimail.in/bhopal/epaper.php?pageid=page1&date=240319|title=e-Paper - Rashtriya Hindi Mail {{!}} 240319 {{!}} Page1|website=epaper.rashtriyahindimail.in|access-date=2019-03-24}}</ref>

==References==

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==External links==
* [http://www.culturepopcorn.com/wiki/pratap-mulick-godfather-indian-comics/ Legend of Pratap Mullick Godfather of Indian Comics Industry at CulturePOPcorn]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WpwctlFBIc Pratap Mullick covers on YouTube]
* [http://www.worldcat.org/identities/viaf-95199605 'Pratap Mulick' at WorldCat]
*[https://comixtheory.wordpress.com/legendcalendar/ Legend Calendar 2019]

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