Initially, they focused on retelling the epics, the Mahabharata and Ramayana. The country welcomed the world of comics with open arms. The term ‘graphic novel’ was coined in 1964, and the Amar Chitra Katha comics were launched in India in 1967. That is why more space is now being created for graphic novels in other Indian languages as well.” S Vijayan, Publisher. We need to keep pace with and embrace the changing times. “Today, there are some young Indian comic book publishers who give an imaginative twist to our mythology for the English and Hindi audience. “Amar Chitra Katha presented mythological tales in an illustrated format to readers all over India,” explains S Vijayan, the 49-year-old editor of Lion Comics, a pioneer in regional comics in Tamil Nadu. Visually strung-together powerful stories by 14 women in Drawing the Line: Indian Women Fight Back, published by Zubaan Books last year, reiterate that the realm of sequential art and graphic storytelling is here to stay. With the success of events such as Comic Con 2016, people have come to view the genre of graphic novels in a different light. Today, most publishers want to do graphic novels,” says the 44-year-old artist, whose work represents the rapidly-changing Indian lifestyle.īut graphic novels are not new to India. She must have spent hours trying to convince marketing. “There was no commercially available graphic novel available in India at that time. V K Karthika, who was then senior editor at Penguin Books, took a huge risk by accepting his manuscript. It took Sarnath three-and-a-half years to complete the story set in the corridors of Connaught Place and Kolkata, capturing the essence of urban lives in all its madness. Girija Jhunjhunwala, Publisher Pic: Shekhar YadavĪ mix of photographs, drawings and text bound together in a slim book brought out the colours and darkness in the lives of three men in Delhi in 2004 in Corridor, which leapfrogged its author Sarnath Banerjee and the rise of the graphic novel movement in India. Artful pictures that tell tales of valour, humour, sex, gossip, introspection, despair, darkness and light-graphic novels are making a bold and in-your-face impression on paper in four colours. They are in our own Indian backyard, spawning out of graphic novels, embedding themselves in the hearts of those who grew up with Batman, Superman, Spider-man and their league of super heroes. These heroes are not guardians of Gotham City, Metropolis or New York.
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