comics

Comic Strip Conscience

Shreya Sethuraman

A new band of superheroes mixes adventure with social compassion

Eternal Tales in The Electronic Age

Anusha Subramanian

The first act of Amar Chitra Katha’s rescue is over. The brand has survived. But Act Two will be tricky

The Illicit Happiness of Other People

Manu Joseph

Seventeen-year-old cartoonist Unni Chacko has jumped off a building. Nobody is able to explain why he did it. The only clues he has left behind are the cartoons and comics he has drawn, which his alcoholic father is trying to decipher. Extracts from Manu Joseph’s new novel

Hair Burns Like Grass

arindam

An excerpt from ‘Pao: The Anthology of Comics’

Indonesia’s Uncle Pai

Rimli Sengupta

His comics bear an uncanny resemblance to the signature Amar Chitra Katha style. And yet, Raden Ahmed Kosasih, the father of the Indonesian comic, was doing this many years before Pai began his own epic effort.