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Dastidar, Diptarup Ghosh. "Prospects of Comics Studies in India." Gnosis Special Issue (2019): 113–28. Added by: joachim (25/10/2021, 17:04) |
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| Resource type: Journal Article Language: en: English Peer reviewed BibTeX citation key: Dastidar2019 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: Comic book industry, Comics research, India, Interculturalism Creators: Dastidar Collection: Gnosis Special Issue |
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Although the prehistory of comics in India can be traced all the way back to the 1850’s Delhi Sketchbook or the Indian Punch, the proper Indian comics scene can be said to have started from the 1960’s with the publication of Amar Chitra Katha Comics and thriving publishing houses like Raj Comics and Indrajal Comics. Since then, for the past five decades there has been a steady rise not only in the publication of comics in India, but also in its reception and appreciation. The appropriation of the term ‘graphic novel’, coined by Will Eisner, into the Indian scenario has uplifted the importance given to the comics form. Post-1980’s comics artists in India like Sarnath Banerjee, Vishwajyoti Ghosh, Sarbjit Sen, Orijit Sen, Amruta Patil, Appuppen and many others have started their own endeavors instead of working for publishing houses. This along with numerous graphic anthologies in the recent years like Gaysi Zine, This Side: That Side, Longform, and many others have enlarged the scope and directions of studying comics in India. Having discussed the comics scenario, this paper talks about various ways in which the Indian comics industry is affected by the conceptual notions generated in the western world. It also raises questions about the future of comics as a genre in the Indian context and what its place may be in the upcoming researches of the Humanities departments in India.
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