Shark toons: Apex predators who are witty and happy
Tamil Nadu
By Prutha Chakraborty
November 27, 2022
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If Anju Sabu woke up one morning as a shark, she’d prefer being
a
great white shark. “They have qualities no other fish has.”
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Creator of the Oh,
Dakuwaqa
series, Sabu works in IT for a multispecialty hospital. But given a chance to do it all over, she would pick art.
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‘The Shark’, the main character of her comics, “is funny, snarky, and frustrated with human opinion of sharks.”
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On whether the dapper-looking creature is male or female, Sabu says she “hadn’t decided if it has a gender because that might box it in.”
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“I think I was fascinated with sharks the minute I got to know about them. There is something about them — graceful, different, and just interesting.”
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Based on a novel by Peter Benchley, Jaws portrays sharks as mindless killing machines. That narrative needs to change, Sabu felt.
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Her initial comics showed more human-shark interaction while the later ones focused on awareness about sharks.
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She realised her toons had become a major hit when shark conservationists from other countries asked her to make comics for a cause.
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In the backdrop of the
COP27 climate summit
in Egypt, Sabu feels it is critical to have healthy sharks in healthy oceans to have a healthy planet.
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“Without healthy sharks, the other fish multiply too much and that leads to depletion of corals and creates changes in the ecosystem.”
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