I wanted to do it myself in India,” says Akash Anand, a software engineer who also practices digital art. “I am a visual artist and have been following abstract comics that are published in the West. Another stall that catches the eye at Comic Con is of books that have no text but just abstract art in black and white shaping in to a story. It took us about three months to develop this book and the genre is catching on for sure,” he says. Though its digital art, I have focused a lot on the figures. “We are trying to experiment with horror in comics. ![]() Its time to do more for adults,” added Abhijit Kini, the artist for Tinkle series, ‘oops it’s butterfingers.’ Graphic artist, Bhanu Pratap and his team launched a supernatural thriller for readers above 18 years of age. Mythology and children’s work has been done for very long. We can look at stereotypes in people as a subject and it can be very humorous. “I think contemporary society is a great theme for graphic novels. ![]() There is a graphic novel which is used as text book in US schools. ![]() “I think it’s high time that we start considering sequential art as mainstream literature. ![]() But they dared to go ahead with the unconventional idea because they feel that a market for Indian graphic novels is slowly growing. It took the team of three artists two months time and an investment of around Rs two lakh per book.
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