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#Tinkle comics archive series
Created and edited by Kodavatiganti Kutumba Rao, something of a literary colossus in the world of Telugu literature, the series of illustrated stories focussed on telling mythological and magical tales, often steeped in a sense of morality for the times. Chandamama, another pivotal children’s monthly magazine kicked off in 1947, and continues to exist today in multiple avatars.
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Comic enthusiast or not, we can guarantee this article is of interest to just about anyone who might feel nostalgic at the mention of a certain Chacha Chaudhury, a Shikari Shambu, or even a Tinkle digest.Ĭlassic Hindi and Urdu comic magazines for children such as Baalak and Honhar began to be published, with Baalak’s run lasting decades all the way from 1926 - 1986.
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So without further ado, here it is - a conclusive history and timeline of the evolution of comic books in India, divided by a phase-wise segregation of decades as opposed to individual years, documenting almost a century of Indian comic books and graphic novels. And as iconic characters, cartoonists, writers and publishing houses weaved themselves together, the fabric that is the indian comic book industry today came together more easily than we expected. So despite being overwhelmed at what might have been a gargantuan task, we consulted with Alok Sharma (read his tribute to RK Laxman here) a writer/ director/ filmmaker/ illustrator who’s become something of an expert on the history, evolution and socio-cultural significance of indian comic books, to give it a shot. Still, unlike its storytelling predecessors before it, comic books and graphic novels are a far more recent development, especially in a country like India, which means their history and evolution are still entirely traceable. Pre-internet or post-internet, comic books and graphic novels have become an indomitable part of our narrative as a species, combining the power of both the written word with powerful visual imagery and they have become as telling of our existence as literature, music or any of the other arts, despite a cartoonish exterior that often deems it childish. Instead, we were left with a comic-book-shaped hole in our cosmos when we first discovered them, and nothing’s really been able to fill the mould since, let alone overshadow it. Superheroes and super villains, anti-heroes and anti villains.
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Some chose to segregate good and evil in the way life never could others choosing to focus on the complexities of our own emotions and our own strength of spirit. Another medium of expression, another art of story-telling that might have coalesced such a startling range of human emotions-innumerable versions and degrees of envy, greed, hope, inspiration, melancholy, redemption and so much more. (Tee-hee!)Īnd, oh, there’s also a wonderful World Cup Planner in the June issue of Tinkle Magazine and Tinkle Digest, if the football fever has gripped you as well.Perhaps it could have been something else. It’s quite the, pardon the pun, kick-starter. It’s almost as if they are giving us, the non-football-match-watchers, news about some parallel world that passes beneath our beds at night while we snore away blissfully.īut are we complaining? Heck, no! The energy that these conversations bring in is enough for us to get through the whole day happily. It is extremely fascinating to watch as people then dive into a lengthy analytical conversation following that. With the ongoing Football World Cup, the new greeting here goes something like this–'I can’t believe X team won yesterday.’ or 'Didn’t I tell you X team was going to rule this year?’ And that’s our morning greeting! Yes, forget ‘Good Morning’ and 'Hello’. (New address at the end of the post.)Īs we adjust to a new office space, new desk and a new mix of chai, there’s another change that we’ve seen. One of which is the change in our office address. Sean (Dmello) and I (Shruti) were just talking this morning of how so many things have changed in the past few weeks.