Comix India is an Indian comics anthology magazine, dedicated to alternative Indian comics for adults. It was begun in 2010 by comics artist Bharath Murthy in collaboration with Kailash Iyer. It is self-published, black & white and follows a print-on-demand, profit-sharing publishing model. The magazine focuses on long-form stories. Bharath Murthy is the current Editor and Mitsuhiro Asakawa is the Editorial Adviser. Asakawa is a former editor of cult Japanese alternative manga magazines Garo and Ax and gekiga researcher for more than two decades. Alternative Japanese manga features alongside Indian comics from Volume 7 onwards.
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History
In 2009, Bharath put out a call for a new amateur comics magazine on an internet forum on Indian comics that he ran. Among those who responded was Kailash Iyer, who agreed to do the book design. At the time its first volume was released in March 2010, it was among the few such anthologies in India, like Drighangchoo, published between 2009-10 in Kolkata. In an interview with art historian Ryan Holmberg in The Comics Journal, Bharath says he was inspired by doujinshi comics culture that he witnessed in Japan, while filming a documentary on the topic, called The Fragile Heart of Moé.
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References
External links
- Comix India website
- Entry on Indian comics in Sahapedia
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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