E. P. Unny

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E. P. Unny, born Ekanath Padmanabhan Unny in Palakkad, Kerala, is an Indian political cartoonist. He studied physics in Kerala and published his first cartoon in Shankar's Weekly in 1973. After sending cartoons to The Hindu, editor Gopalan Kasturi offered him a full-time job. He left a bank job to join The Hindu in 1977 and spent about 12 years learning journalism there.

In 1989 he moved to Delhi to work with the Sunday Mail, where he experimented with different forms of cartooning and became a graphic editor. He later worked for The Economic Times and is now the Chief Political Cartoonist for The Indian Express, where his daily editorial strip Business as Usual appears.

Unny has created graphic novels in Malayalam and a travel book, Spices & Souls: A Doodler's Journey Through Kerala. He produced graphic shorts for Malayalam literary journals in the 1990s and wrote Santa and the Scribes: The Making of Fort Kochi, published in 2014. A recurring character in his cartoons is a bespectacled young boy who often makes mature remarks; this character started at the Sunday Mail and continued at The Indian Express. He avoids drawing cartoons about religion, saying he has no knowledge of the subject. Influences on his work include R. K. Laxman, K. Shankar Pillai, O. V. Vijayan, Abu Abraham, and Rajinder Puri.