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Newspaper Cartoon Artist

 The '43 Group was a school of modern mid-20th-century art in

Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), established in 1943.

 The group was essentially an association of like-minded artists who

had broken away from the Ceylon Society of Arts, led by photographer
and critic Lionel Wendt, and originally included nine painters as key
members (listed alphabetically): Geoffrey Beling, George Claessen,
Aubrey Collette, Justin Daraniyagala, Richard Gabriel, George Keyt,
Ivan Peries, Harry Pieris (the first and only Secretary of the Group),
and the Ver. Manjusri Thero.
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 The group were influenced by Charles Freegrove Winzer, to whom

Keyt and Beling had been pupils.

 The paintings of the group constituted a historic break in Sri Lankan

and, more generally, South Asian tradition. Art historian Jagath
Weerasinghe wrote that the most significant achievement of the 43
Group was their localization of European modernist trends into a
distinctively Sri Lankan modernist art.
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 Lester James Peries became a later associate of the group.

 The Group also promoted Kandyan dance and other Sri Lankan dance forms.
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Camillus Perera

 Kala Keerthi Camillus Perera is

a Sri Lankan cartoonist. His
cartoon characters like Gajaman
and Siribiris have been
published in various Sinhala
newspapers ranging from the
Sunday Observer to Sivdesa.
Perera was invited to join the
advisory board of John Lent's
Cartoon Journal in 2002.
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 Cartoonist

 Perera began work as a

cartoonist in 1966 developing
characters for the Observer and
"Dekkoth Pathmawathi" for
Lake House's film magazine. In
1972 he created Gajaman, his
most popular character.
Gajaman first appeared on
Sathuta, a Lake House comic
art publication and from 1975
to 1984 occupied a spot on the
comic publication Sittara
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 In April 1984 Perera produced a magazine devoted to his work

titled Camillusge Gajaman. Its success, with over 200,000 copies sold,
prompted the followups Camillusge Samayan in December and Camillusge
Gajaman #2 the next year. Both sold between 200,000–300,000 copies and
resulted in the formation of Camillus Publications. Perera cited copyright
issues as a primary reason for the creation of his new company. He
subsequently registered his 15 characters with the Department of Registry and
Patents.
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 Camillusge Gajaman Samaga Sathsiri (later shortened to Sathsiri) released in

1986 was the first comic magazine by Camillus Publications and immediately sold
over 150,000 copies eventually achieving a circulation of 200,000. Their second
magazine Camillusge Don Sethan Samaga Rasika (shortened to Rasika) followed
the misadventures of Don Sethan, Perera's oldest creation. Don Sethan first
appeared in the daily Janath on May 1, 1966.

 In the 1990s Perera worked on several periodicals including a weekly comic

magazine.
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