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.

Just a mention of the name Bapu brings smiles on the faces of Telugu people. Such is the spell the artiste has cast on the masses across Andhra Pradesh over the years. Whether it is the little Budugu with his trademark mischievous smile or the traditional Telugu girl with a beautiful jada (plait) looking back over her shoulders, Bapu's line art has earned him a large fan following in the Telugu Diaspora during the last 60 years.

His most well-known cartoon strip, called Budugu, was the result of a collaboration with his childhood friend, Mullapudi Venkataramana, and gave life to Mullapudi's characters Budugu and his family in the form of pictures.The cartoon strip is about a lovable, precocious little boy-next-door called Budugu.