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Gopalakrishnan, Gokul T. "G. Aravindan’s “Small Men and the Big World”: Re-Defining the “Comic” in the Strip." International Journal of Comic Art 11.(2009): 44–52. 
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Resource type: Journal Article
Language: en: English
BibTeX citation key: Gopalakrishnan2009a
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Keywords: "Small Men and the Big World", Aravindan. Govindan, Comic strip, India
Creators: Gopalakrishnan
Collection: International Journal of Comic Art
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Abstract
This paper locates G. Aravindan’s Small Men and the Big World (1961–1973), a popular comic strip in Kerala as one of its kind in dissociating ‘comic’ from its mere lexical implications. Considering Aravindan a pioneer for recognizing the medium’s potential for narrative complexity as early as 1961 and conceptualizing issues which were deemed outside the scope of a so called ‘Low art’ medium, it seeks to explicate how the comic-strip space metamorphoses into a site where the cultural, political and the social mingle, reflecting and in turn shaping, discourses of an era.
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