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Index Indian comics

Indian comics (known as Chitrakatha) are comic books and graphic novels associated with the culture of India published a number of Indian languages and English.However rajcomics is best and most widely distributed comic industry in india left now. [1]

68 relations: Abid Surti, Amar Chitra Katha, Anant Pai, Anime, Bahadur (comics), Bantul the Great, Chacha Chaudhary, Champak, Chandamama, Chitra Bharti Kathamala, Comic book convention, Comic Con India, Comics Fest India, Culture of India, Detective Moochwala, Diamond Comics, Doga (comics), Europe, Feminism, Flash Gordon, Graphic India, Graphic novel, Hindu mythology, Hindustan Times, Illustrated Orchids, Indrajal Comics, Japan, King Comics, Kiran Comics, Kriyetic Comics, Lalu Leela, Level 10 Comics, Lion comics, Liquid Comics, Lotpot, Madhu Muskan, Malaysia, Mandrake the Magician, Manga, Manoj Comics, Mythology (comic book), Nagraj, Narayan Debnath, New Delhi World Book Fair, Nutan Comics, Politics of India, Pran Kumar Sharma, Radha Comics, Raj Comics, Rip Kirby, ..., Shikari Shambu, Singapore, Social consciousness, Social media, Star Comics IBH, Super Commando Dhruva, Superhero comics, Suppandi, The Phantom, The Times Group, The Times of India, Tinkle, Tulsi Comics, Vimanika Comics, Webcomic, Webcomics in India, Yali Dream Creations, Yomics World. Expand index (18 more) »

Abid Surti

Abid Surti or Aabid Surti (आबिद सुरती; આબિદ સુરતી; born 5 May 1935) is a painter, author, cartoonist, journalist, environmentalist, playwright and screenwriter from India.

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Amar Chitra Katha

Amar Chitra Katha (ACK, "Immortal Captivating (or Picture) Stories") is one of India's largest selling comic book series, with more than 100 million copies sold in 20 Indian languages.

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Anant Pai

Anant Pai (17 September 1929 – 24 February 2011), popularly known as Uncle Pai, was an Indian educationalist and a pioneer in Indian comics.

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Anime

Anime is a style of hand-drawn and computer animation originating in, and commonly associated with, Japan.

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Bahadur (comics)

Bahadur (meaning The Brave Man) is a comic book superhero published by Indrajal Comics and created by Aabid Surti in 1976.

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Bantul the Great

Batul, Bantul, Batul the Great, or Bantul the Great (বাঁটুল দি গ্রেট) is a popular Bengali comic strip character created by Narayan Debnath.

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Chacha Chaudhary

Chacha Chaudhary is a popular Indian comic book character, created by cartoonist Pran Kumar Sharma.

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Champak

Champak (Hindi: चंपक) is a popular fortnightly magazine for children published by the Japan Press Group since 1969 in India.

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Chandamama

Chandamama was a classic Indian monthly magazine for children, famous for its illustrations.

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Chitra Bharti Kathamala

Chitra Bharti Kathamala was a popular Indian comic book publication during the early 1980s.

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Comic book convention

A comic book convention or comic con is an event with a primary focus on comic books and comic book culture, in which comic book fans gather to meet creators, experts, and each other.

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Comic Con India

Comic Con India (CCI) is a series of annual comic-based conventions held in India.

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Comics Fest India

Comics Fest India (previously known as Nagraj Janmotsav) is a comic-based convention held in India, annually at New Delhi.

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Culture of India

The culture of India refers collectively to the thousands of distinct and unique cultures of all religions and communities present in India.

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Detective Moochwala

Detective Moochhwala is an eponymous Indian magazine comic strip created by the well-known Indian cartoonist Ajit Ninan.

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Diamond Comics

Diamond Comics Pvt.

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Doga (comics)

Doga is a fictional character, an Indian comic book anti-hero character appearing in Raj Comics, published and distributed across India.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Feminism

Feminism is a range of political movements, ideologies, and social movements that share a common goal: to define, establish, and achieve political, economic, personal, and social equality of sexes.

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Flash Gordon

Flash Gordon is the hero of a space opera adventure comic strip created by and originally drawn by Alex Raymond.

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Graphic India

Graphic India is currently developing a large, interconnected Superhero Cinematic Universe of Indian and Indian-inspired characters for a global audience.

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Graphic novel

A graphic novel is a book made up of comics content.

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Hindu mythology

Hindu mythology are mythical narratives found in Hindu texts such as the Vedic literature, epics like Mahabharata and Ramayana, the Puranas, the regional literatures Sangam literature and Periya Puranam.

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Hindustan Times

Hindustan Times is an Indian English-language daily newspaper founded in 1924 with roots in the Indian independence movement of the period ("Hindustan" being a historical name for India).

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Illustrated Orchids

Illustrated Orchids is a subsidiary of Singapore based Arbiter Technologies Pte Ltd which focuses on publishing comic books in India, Singapore, Malaysia and Europe.

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Indrajal Comics

Indrajal Comics was a series launched by the publisher of The Times of India, Bennet, Coleman & Co in March 1964.

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Japan

Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.

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King Comics

King Comics, a short-lived comic book imprint of King Features Syndicate, was an attempt by King Features to publish comics of its own characters, rather than through other publishers.

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Kiran Comics

Kiran Comics was an Indian comic line published in the late 1980s by Kiran Publications and distributed by India Book House (IBH).

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Kriyetic Comics

Kriyetic Comics is a Calcutta-based company specialising in graphic art, graphic novels, animation and 3D modelling.

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Lalu Leela

Lalu Leela was a Malayalam comic magazine published from Kottayam, Kerala.

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Level 10 Comics

Level 10 Entertainment is a comic publishing company based out of Mumbai, India.

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Lion comics

Lion comics (லயன் காமிக்ஸ்) is a Tamil Comic Book series published by Prakash Publishers, in South India.

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Liquid Comics

Liquid Comics is a comic book company, founded in 2006 as Virgin Comics LLC, which produced stories (many of which are Indian-culture related) for an international audience.

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Lotpot

Lotpot (Hindi: लोटपोट) is a Hindi comic magazine published by the Mayapuri Group of publications.

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Madhu Muskan

Madhu Muskan was an Indian weekly comic magazine from the Gowarsons Group of Companies, which had a circulation of up to 100,000 in the late 1970s.

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Malaysia

Malaysia is a federal constitutional monarchy in Southeast Asia.

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Mandrake the Magician

Mandrake the Magician is a syndicated newspaper comic strip, created by Lee Falk (before he created The Phantom).

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Manga

are comics created in Japan or by creators in the Japanese language, conforming to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century.

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Manoj Comics

Manoj Comics was one of the leading comic book houses in India along with its competitors like Raj Comics and Diamond Comics.

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Mythology (comic book)

Mythology is a comic book created by Illustrated Orchids, based upon the legends of India.

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Nagraj

Nagraj ("Snake-King") (नागराज in Devanagari script) is a fictional superhero appearing in Raj Comics,.

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Narayan Debnath

Narayan Debnath (নারায়ণ দেবনাথ: 1925. is senior and popular comic artist of Kolkata, West Bengal. He is the creator of the popular Bengali comic strips of Handa Bhonda (1962),Batul The Great (1965) and Nonte Phonte(1969). He holds the record of longest running comics by an individual artiste for Handa Bhonda comics series which have now completed its continuous 53 years of running. He is the first and only Comics-Artist in India who has received D. Litt degree (Doctor of Letters). His other creations like Rabi Chobi was published to celebrate the birth centenary of Rabindranath Tagore in the May, 1961 issue of the weekly magazine called Anandamela. The full length 50-page comics were first published in the book format by Sarvodaya Sahitya Prakashan, Varanasi. Rajar Raja (was published in 1962), it was illustrated by Narayan Debnath and written by Bimal Ghosh to celebrate the birth centenary of Swami Vivekananda. It was published every Monday for two years in the weekly Anandamela magazine. Eventually the 100-page comics was published in the form of a book in 1965 by Anandabajar Private Limited. Around this time, the popular artist Shibshankar was also producing the illustrated comics of Swami Vivekananda (Mar-Apr, 1961) in Shuktara, but in mid-1962 Shibshankar had to abandon the project and the responsibility was passed over to Debnath. Debnath then illustrated comics on Vivekananda simultaneously in both Shuktara and Anandamela. Later the 44-page Swami Vivekananda comics in Shuktara was renamed Chobite Vivekananda by Deb Sahitya Kutir (DSK) and published in 1964. The 33-page Chitre Durgeshnandini (Apr-May, 1962) was published in Nobokollol magazine by DSK.Handa Bhoda was first published in the Jun-July, 1962 issue of Shuktara. Nonte Phonte was first published in December, 1969 issue of the new children’s monthly magazine called Kishore Bharati produced by PATRABHARATI. Chhatrapati Shivaji was published in Anandamela (1964–65). Shootki ar Mootki was published in 1964 in Shuktara. Hirer Tiara was published in 1965 in Nobokollol magazine. Indrajit Ray o Black Diamond was published in 1970 in Kishore Bharati (Black Diamond Rahashya ebong Goenda Indrajit Ray, which is now published by Patra Bharati includes these nine amazing short graphic narratives - Rahashyamay Shei Barita, Black Diamond, Toofan-Mail er Yatri, Kachei Mohona, Shondher Mahuamilan, Station Mukutmanipur, Chandni Raate, Ei Kolkatay and Jibon-Dip). Rahashyamay Abhijatri was published in 1972 in Shuktara. Itihasher Dourath was published in 1974 in Kishore Bharati. Koushik Roy was published in Shuktara in 1976. Bahadur Beral was published in Shuktara in 1983. Daanpite Khadu Aar Tar Chemical Dadu was published in Chotoder Ashore magazine in 1983. Petukmaster Batuklal was published in 1984 in Kishore Mon magazine. Mahakasher Ajob Deshe was published in 1994 in Shuktara. And finally Jatoker Golpo was published in 1994 in Shuktara.

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New Delhi World Book Fair

The New Delhi World Book Fair, hosted at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi, is India's oldest book fair after the Kolkata Book Fair.

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Nutan Comics

Nutan Comics was an Indian comics published by Nutan Pocket Books in the late 1970s and 1980s.

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Politics of India

The politics of India takes place within the framework of its constitution.

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Pran Kumar Sharma

Pran Kumar Sharma (15 August 1938 – 5 August 2014), better known as Pran, was an Indian cartoonist best known as the creator of Chacha Chaudhary (1971).

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Radha Comics

Radha Comics was an Indian comics publication in the late 80s and early 90s.

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Raj Comics

Raj Comics is an Indian comic book publisher.

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Rip Kirby

Rip Kirby is a comic strip featuring the adventures of the eponymous lead character, a private detective created by Alex Raymond in 1946.

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Shikari Shambu

Shikari Shambu (Hunter Shambu) is an Indian comic character created by Vasant Halbe and Luis Fernandes for the Tinkle magazine in 1983.

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Singapore

Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign city-state and island country in Southeast Asia.

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Social consciousness

Social consciousness is consciousness shared by individuals within a society.

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Social media

Social media are computer-mediated technologies that facilitate the creation and sharing of information, ideas, career interests and other forms of expression via virtual communities and networks.

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Star Comics IBH

Star Comics was an Indian comic line published by IBH (India Book House) popular during the 1970s and 1980s.

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Super Commando Dhruva

Super Commando Dhruva (सुपर कमांडो ध्रुव in Devanagari script) is a fictional character, an Indian comic book superhero, who appears in comic books published by Raj Comics.

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Superhero comics

Superhero comics are one of the most common genres of American comic books.

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Suppandi

Suppandi is a comic character who appears in Tinkle comics.

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The Phantom

The Phantom is an American adventure comic strip, first published by Lee Falk in February 1936, now primarily published internationally by Frew Publications.

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The Times Group

The Times Group is India’s largest media conglomerate, according to Financial Times as of March 2015.

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The Times of India

The Times of India (TOI) is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Times Group.

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Tinkle

Tinkle is an Indian fortnightly magazine, published mainly in India.

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Tulsi Comics

Tulsi Comics was an Indian comics publisher in the late 80s, 90s and early 2000's, and was a division of Tulsi Pocket Books.

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Vimanika Comics

Vimanika Comics is an Indian Comics Company which creates Comics & Graphic novel based on Indian mythology.

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Webcomic

Webcomics (also known as online comics or Internet comics) are comics published on a website or mobile app.

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Webcomics in India

Webcomics have grown in popularity in India since the early 2000s.

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Yali Dream Creations

Yali Dream Creations.

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Yomics World

Yomics World, or 'Yomics' is the comic book division of Yash Raj Films Studios, specializing in creating comic books predominantly based on Yash Raj Films movies and suitable for readers of all ages.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_comics

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