Abid Surti is a national award-winning painter, author, cartoonist, journalist, environmentalist, playwright, and screenwriter from India. Abid Surti was born into a Gujarati Muslim family on May 5, 1935, in Vavera, Gujarat. He joined the J. J. School of Art in 1954 and obtained a diploma in the arts. Dabbuji was the highly popular and eternal character created by Surti as the "uncommon man". While Surti was quite hopeful that the cartoon would click, it was flooded with negative letters and responses week after week. He wanted to give it 4-6 months, but the deluge of criticism made him shut the door on it temporarily. Dabbuji got a fresh lease on life again with Bennett Coleman & Company Limited’s (BCCL) Dharmyug magazine. Apart from Dabbuji, Surti is also credited with another interesting superhero series, Bahadur, which was created for Indrajal Comics in 1976.