... Irfan was fond of drawing cartoons of those of his colleagues who left the organisation he worked for. At one such farewell, he had said jokingly: "I’ve been making cartoons for each one of them but no one will draw one for me the day I leave." True to his words, the cartoonists of Delhi newspapers on Saturday decided to withdraw their cartoons and leave a blank space as a tribute to the young cartoonist Irfan Hussain.

Shekhar Gurera, The Pioneer, Delhi