Ahsan Habib

Ahsan Habib is a Bangladeshi cartoonist, writer and editor of Unmad, a satire magazine.

Ahsan is the third son of Foyezur Rahman and Ayesha Foyez. His father, a police officer, was killed by the Pakistani army during the liberation war of Bangladesh in 1971. His elder brother, Humayun Ahmed, was a writer and film-maker. Humayun Ahmed died after a nine-month struggle against colorectal cancer at Bellevue Hospital in New York on 19 July 2012. Another brother, Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, is also a writer and educationist. Ahsan is married to Afroza Amin and they are parents to only child Shabnam Ahsan.

Due to his father's occupation, Ahsan spent his childhood in different parts of Bangladesh - Jagdal, Panchagarh, Rangamati, Bandarban, Chittagong, Bogra, Comilla and Pirojpur.

Ahsan Habib studied in more than eight schools before the SSC exam. He earned MSc degree in geography from the University of Dhaka.

He started career as a cartoonist and writer. He is the editor of Unmad, a satire magazine running since the early 1980s. He was the editor of the Bengali science fiction magazines, Moulik, Autoline, and Ghuddi. He is an adviser of Bangladesh Cartoonist Association.

As a cartoonist, Ahsan Habib designed many covers.

He also worked on writing Sher, a short witty 3/4 lined satiric poem, mainly found in the Indian Subcontinent.