Kan Chun was a Burmese satirist, journalist

Journalist

A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...

, novelist, cartoonist

Cartoonist

A cartoonist is a person who specializes in drawing cartoons. This work is usually humorous, mainly created for entertainment, political commentary or advertising...

 and painter

Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

 from Mandalay

Mandalay

Mandalay is the second-largest city and the last royal capital of Burma. Located north of Yangon on the east bank of the Irrawaddy River, the city has a population of one million, and is the capital of Mandalay Region ....

, Burma (Myanmar). He was a prolific cartoonist and writer; he published 73 books. He died in August 2009 of cancer.

Early life

Kan Chun was born in Mandalay

Mandalay

Mandalay is the second-largest city and the last royal capital of Burma. Located north of Yangon on the east bank of the Irrawaddy River, the city has a population of one million, and is the capital of Mandalay Region ....

 on 4 April 1946 to Aye Shwin and Ba Htay, a Burmese Muslim family. He had two brothers, Bo Maung and Hla Win. He attended the Mandalay 3 High School. After high school, he went on to study arts at the School of Fine Arts, Mandalay where he learned painting and cartooning from Win Maung, Kan Nyunt, Chit Mye, Aye Kyaw, Ba Thet

Ba Thet

Ba Thet was a Burmese painter who worked in Mandalay, Myanmar and who was known as an advocate of experimentation in the arts. He was an associate of Kin Maung,...

 and Aung Khin

Aung Khin

Aung Khin was a Burmese painter who became prominent in the Mandalay art world. He is well-known as one of the foremost and earliest of modernistic painters in Burma.-Training, Memberships, and Associations:...

.

Career

Kan Chun began his artistic career after college. His first published cartoon was in the Hanthawaddy, a daily paper in October 1969. He quickly became a successful cartoonist, with his works regularly appearing in all the major dailies of the day—The Botataung

The Botataung

The Botataung was a national Burmese language daily newspaper based out of Yangon in Myanmar. The paper, founded in 1958 by Thein Pe Myint, was arguably the leading leftist newspaper prior to its nationalization in 1964 by Gen. Ne Win's government...

, Kyemon

Kyemon

Kyemon is a state-owned Burmese language daily newspaper based in Yangon, Myanmar. Along with Myanmar Alin, Kyemon is one of two Burmese language national newspapers in the country...

, and The Working People's Daily, as well as in magazines and journals like Shudaung, Thadin, Moe Wai, Cherry, Mahaythi, Kalya, Life Style, Idea, etc.

He also directed the commemorative documentary for the 100th. anniversary of Liberty Ma Mya Yin, a pre-war Mandalay-based Anyeint

Anyeint

Anyeint is a traditional Burmese entertainment form that combines dance with instrumental music, song, and comedy routines, in theatrical performances. It is a form of pwe, the Burmese word for traditional entertainment...

dancer.

Books written

• Modern Student, 1988
• Golden Jubilee of Love and Other Short Stories, 1990
• One Step of Thought
• Humour Salad
• Humour in the Clinic
• Market Economy Concepts
• Humorous Love

External links

1. Kan Chun - Mandalay ka lu tawe a kyoung (About the people from Mandalay)http://www.scribd.com/doc/7850637/Kan-Chun-mandalay-ka-lu-tawe-a-kyoung