Jimmy Boyle (artist) Jimmy Boyle (artist) James Boyle (born 17 May 1944) is a Scottish gangster and convicted murderer who became a sculptor and novelist after his release from prison. In 1967, he was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of another gangland figure, William "Babs" Rooney, but released after 14 years. He has always denied killing Rooney but has acknowledged having been a violent and sometimes ruthless moneylender from the Gorbals, one of the roughest areas of Glasgow. During his incarceration in the special unit of Barlinnie Prison, he turned to art and wrote an autobiography, "A Sense of Freedom" (1977),
A. S. Nair A. S. Nair Athippatta Sivaraman Nair, better known as A. S. Nair () or simply A. S., was a painter, illustrator and cartoonist from Kerala, India. He was born in Karalmanna village of Palakkad district and had his training from Madras School of Arts. He began his career in "Jayakerala" and "Mathrubhumi", where he worked till his last. Most of Nair's works were original illustrations for novels and short stories, most of them published in "Mathrubhumi weekly". Illustrations for the Malayalam translation of V. S. Khandekar's Marathi novel "Yayati" was one of his most noted works. He was known to