Renowned Kerala cartoonist V T Thomas passes away

V. T. Thomas (1929 – April 28, 2016), also known as Toms, was a cartoonist from Kerala, India.
He was the creator of the cartoon characters Boban and Molly  ( the 12-year-old cartoon siblings who endeared one and all with their childish pranks and became household names in the state for nearly 40 years ).

• Toms began his career as cartoonist with Malayala Manorama in 1961 and continued till his retirement in 1987.
• The comic strip used to appear in the last page of the Malayala Manorama weekly. 
• After his retirement in 1987, there was a legal dispute with the newspaper over copyright over the cartoon characters Though Manorama finally won the case in the Supreme Court, they returned the copyright to Toms and the cartoons started appearing in a comic magazine run by him. 
• The cartoon characters were so famous that Toms later launched a magazine titled ‘Boban and Molliyum.