Pratap Mullick

{{Short description|Indian illustrator and comics artist}}

{{Infobox artist

| image = Pratap Mullick.jpg

| birth_date = {{birth date|1936|07|01|df=yes}}

| death_date = {{death date and age|2007|06|18|1936|07|01|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Kolhapur, Maharashtra

| death_place = Pune, Maharashtra

| nationality = Indian

| known_for = Illustration
Comic book art

| children = Milind Mulick

}}

Pratap Mullick (1 July 1936 – 18 June 2007){{Cite web|url=https://comixtheory.wordpress.com/legendcalendar/|title=Comix Theory Legend Calendar 2019|date=2019-03-19|website=COMIX THEORY|language=en|access-date=2019-03-24}}{{Cite web|url=http://comixtheory.com/|title=www.comixtheory.com|website=comixtheory.com|access-date=2019-03-24}} was an Indian illustrator and comics artist. He was best known for illustrating Nagraj of Raj Comics which gained lot of popularity under him and was later handed to Anupam Sinha who made Nagraj an actual superhero. He worked for the Indian comic book series Amar Chitra Katha created by writer and editor Anant Pai. Mullick drew the first 50 issues of Nagraj from 1986 until 1995.{{cite web|title=Lambiek.Net|url=http://lambiek.net/artists/m/mulick_pratap.htm}} He designed the comic-book character Supremo (based on movie star Amitabh Bachchan), who featured in a series published for two years in the 1980s.{{cite web|title=Remembering Amitabh, the Supremo superhero|url=http://www.rediff.com/movies/slide-show/slide-show-1-pammi-bakshi-on-supremo/20091110.htm|work=Rediff.com}}

As a veteran illustrator, Mullick ran his own comics studio and training workshop in Pune.{{cite book|last=Lent|first=John A.|title=Illustrating Asia: Comics, Humor Magazines, and Picture Books|year=2001|publisher=University of Hawaii Press|isbn=9780824824716|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SSM4r36KjuQC&q=Pratap+Mullick%22}} He was also the author of an art-instruction book Sketching, which according to the publisher's website is "a condensation of Pratap Mulick’s life-long devotion to figure drawing and illustration". A blurb on the book claims that 1,00,000 copies have been sold till date.

Sanjay Gupta studio head and co-founder of Raj Comics shared his work experience with Pratap Mulick, during an interview with CulturePOPcorn.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2017-08-19|title=Exclusive Interview of Sanjay Gupta : Comics is my Life, I am Comics|url=https://culturepopcorn.com/sanjay-gupta-interview-raj-comics/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-08-04|website=CulturePOP.com|language=en-US}}

Karline McLain, a researcher who worked at the Amar Chitra Katha production offices, wrote a book which discusses the work of Amar Chitra Katha artists and records conversations with Pratap Mullick.{{cite book|last=McLain|first=Karline|title=India's immortal comic books: gods, kings, and other heroes|year=2009|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=978-0253220523|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V4-Su0whKa0C&q=Pratap+Mulick}}