Arts
Raja Ravi Varma: the painter whose oleographs put gods on every Indian wall
How a Travancore prince fused European oil painting with Hindu iconography, then printed it cheaply enough to reach the whole country.
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4 min readMario Miranda: the cartoonist who drew all of Goa into the frame
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2 min readAkihiro Miwa, Influential Japanese Artist and Performer, Dies at 91
Gond art and Jangarh Singh Shyam: the tribal line that reached the graphic novel
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Skirball's Inventing America Traces How Comics Shaped the Nation
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R. K. Laxman and the Common Man: fifty years of watching India from the corner
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Haggin Museum Honours DC Pioneer Tony DeZuniga With a Stockton Retrospective
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Kalighat painting: the Calcutta bazaar art that now hangs in the V&A
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George Lucas's Museum of Narrative Art Sets September 22 Opening
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Will Eisner: the cartoonist who gave the graphic novel its name
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Inside the Musee Herge, the Belgian shrine to Tintin's creator
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The Takarazuka museum that honors the god of manga, Osamu Tezuka
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Gond art and Jangarh Singh Shyam: the tribal line that reached the graphic novel
A buffalo-herder from a Madhya Pradesh village turned Pardhan Gond music into painting, founded a school of art, and seeded the visual language of Bhimayana.
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Return of the Jungle: Vaibhav Kumaresh's 15-Year Bet on an India Without Gods or Minions
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From Webtoon to Netflix: How Hellbound Became One of Korea's Most Ambitious Live-Action Adaptations
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Comics
The Powerpuff Girls Return With an All-New Sequel in Brand-New Comic Adventure
Comics
Indrajal Comics: How The Phantom Became an Indian Household Hero
Films
The Invisible Everyman: How Mr. India Became Indian Sci-Fi's Foundation Stone
Comics
Narayan Debnath: The Man Who Drew Bengal's Comics for Sixty Years
Films
Enthiran to 2.0: Rajinikanth, Shankar and India's Biggest Sci-Fi Machine
Comics
River of Stories: The 1994 Book That Started the Indian Graphic Novel
Films