1. Ba Gyan was a pioneering Burmese cartoonist who created the first cartoon movie released in Burma in 1935.
10 Facts About Ba Gyan
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Ba Gyan's cartoons covered a wide variety of topics and events, and ridiculed human frailties such as discourtesy, dishonesty, snobbery, arrogance, inefficiency and sloth.
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Ba Gyan was born in 1902 at Nyaungdon, the son of a silk merchant.
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Ba Gyan was admitted to Yangon College in 1924, and the University magazine included his first cartoon in 1926.
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Ba Gyan drew Magazine covers and water colour paintings, and wrote novels under the pen name Thonnya, meaning zero.
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Ba Gyan created the cartoon films Kyetaungwa in 1934 and Athuya in 1935, working with cartoonist Hein Son.
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Ba Gyan pioneered the crucial role of news cartoons in newspapers such as The Botataung, The Mirror and Myanma Alin.
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Ba Gyan won the Alinka Kyawswa award for his artistic skill.
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Ba Gyan used to hold a cartoon show on 13th street, where he lived, each year during Tazaungdaing festival, a custom that was continued after his death by his pupils such as cartoonist Pe Thein.
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Ba Gyan is featured in the Burmese textbook used all over the country.