A cartoon is a rare creation that wraps art, portraiture and comment in the same picture. Bapu is famous for his delightful cartoons. In one simple frame, he manages to deftly tell a whole story, making you laugh as well as appreciate some hitherto hidden truth.He explains, “… whether it is a film ,a painting or a cartoon (all) express a picture in the mind…”

He started as a cartoonist in `Andhra Patrika' where his pocket cartoons were a rage in the '50s. His illustrations for the famous weeklies of the time were equally popular and almost every known novelist of that era had illustrations by him as covers. Though he shifted his attention to movies in the late '60s, Bapu has been considered the father figure of cartoonists. Apart from cartooning, he is in to graphic art and film direction and production.