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Chuks Onwudinjo started his career in journalism with Nigeria’s number 1 newsmagazine, Newswatch in 1989, as an editorial cartoonist and artist.
As the best graduating painting student, University of Nigeria, Nsukka in
1987, it wasn’t long before TELL magazine beamed their searchlight
on him and in 1991, was invited by the magazine to pioneer the design desk of the magazine and for seven out of the ten years he spent with the magazine, his designs won the Diamonds Award for Media Excellence, D.A.M.E, in the category of Best Designed Magazine, Seven consecutive times!
In 2001, he teamed up with eight of his colleagues at TELL magazine to co-found and publish INSIDER WEEKLY magazine and here again his designs, cartoons and editorial prowess, made the new magazine an instant hit!
The Arlington, Virginia based Cartoonist Relief Network, CRN, the precursor of Cartoonist Right Network International, CRNI in 1997 listed him along side eight other international artist from Algeria, Burma, Lebanon, Egypy, Sri Lanka, Turkey, and Yemen as some of the endangered cartoonist in the world. He was arrested several times under the Military dictatorship of General Sani Abacha for his cartoons and illegally detained under General Olusegun Obasanjo’s civilian intransigence.

In 2006, Nominated by The International Alliance of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples of Tropical Forest, Mai, Thailand, to represent the organization from Nigeria at the Third General assembly of the Global Environmental Facility, GEF, hosted by the government of South Africa in Cape Town.

In 2008, he was appointed into the publicity sub-committee of the Presidential Committee for the Equipping of the Nigeria Police Force.

In 2015, he was invited by CRNI where he served as the country leader, Nigerian and West African of the organization, to a workshop for the formation of a Global Cartoonists’ Rights Consortium that held at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum (The largest and most comprehensive academic research facility documenting printed cartoon art in the world) in Columbo, Ohio, United States of America that held between September 1-3.
He was also a guest of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonist, AAEC, at their 2015 convention in same Columbus.
After the workshop, his work entered into the catalogue of the largest cartoon collection in the world.

Currently he is a Director with Nigeria’s leading newspaper, THISDAY where he maintained a cartoon column called PASQUINADE every Saturday and Sunday.
Onwudinjo is a member of Cartoonist Association of Nigeria and National Association of Seadogs, Pyrates Confraternity.
He’s listed in Diamond Publications WHO’S WHO in Nigerian Media, Nigerian International Biographical Centre’s WHO’S WHO in Nigeria and Achiever’s Communications’ WHO’S WHO in Nigeria.
He is married with four children.