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Indian Comics & Culture
Comics Today's coverage of Indian comics, cartooning and graphic-novel history: publishers, characters, artists and archives.
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Indrajal Comics: How The Phantom Became an Indian Household Hero
Jul 2, 2026 · 3 min read →The filings · Indian Comics & Culture
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The Invisible Everyman: How Mr. India Became Indian Sci-Fi's Foundation Stone
Jul 2, 2026 · 3 min read → - 03COMICS· Creator
Narayan Debnath: The Man Who Drew Bengal's Comics for Sixty Years
Jul 2, 2026 · 3 min read → - 04FILMS· Blockbuster
Enthiran to 2.0: Rajinikanth, Shankar and India's Biggest Sci-Fi Machine
Jul 2, 2026 · 3 min read → - 05COMICS· Landmark
River of Stories: The 1994 Book That Started the Indian Graphic Novel
Jul 2, 2026 · 3 min read → - 06FILMS· Cult Fantasy
Eega: The Reincarnated Fly That Proved Rajamouli Could Do Anything
Jul 2, 2026 · 3 min read → - 07COMICS· Character
Bahadur: Aabid Surti's Action Hero for the Age of the Dacoits
Jul 2, 2026 · 3 min read → - 08FILMS· VFX
Baahubali and the Rise of India's Visual Effects Industry
Jul 2, 2026 · 3 min read → - 09COMICS· Heritage
Chandamama: The Illustrated Story Magazine That Raised Generations
Jul 2, 2026 · 3 min read → - 10FILMS· Milestone
RRR: The Global Breakthrough and the Night Naatu Naatu Won the Oscar
Jul 2, 2026 · 3 min read → - 11COMICS· Regional
Lion and Muthu Comics: The Tamil Pulp Phenomenon Printed in Sivakasi
Jul 2, 2026 · 3 min read → - 12FILMS· Anime Classic
Ramayana: The Legend of Prince Rama, the Indo-Japanese Anime That Refused to Die
Jul 1, 2026 · 3 min read → - 13COMICS· Crossover
Spider-Man: India, Pavitr Prabhakar and the Gotham Comics Era
Jul 1, 2026 · 3 min read → - 14FILMS· Milestone
My Dear Kuttichathan: The Kerala Goblin That Gave India Its First 3D Film
Jul 1, 2026 · 3 min read → - 15COMICS· Publisher
Pran's Diamond Comics Empire: Billoo, Pinki, Shrimatiji and the Rest
Jul 1, 2026 · 3 min read → - 16FILMS· Animation
Arjun: The Warrior Prince, the Disney-UTV Epic That Dared to Grow Up
Jul 1, 2026 · 3 min read → - 17COMICS· Innovation
Priya's Shakti: The Augmented Reality Comic That Fought Gender Violence
Jul 1, 2026 · 3 min read → - 18FILMS· Epic Sci-Fi
Kalki 2898 AD: Mythology Meets Science Fiction at Indian Cinema's Biggest Scale
Jul 1, 2026 · 3 min read → - 19COMICS· Industry
Devi, Ramayan 3392 AD and the Mythology Comics Wave
Jul 1, 2026 · 3 min read → - 20FILMS· Curiosity
Ajooba: Amitabh Bachchan's Masked-Avenger Curiosity From the Indo-Soviet Frontier
Jul 1, 2026 · 3 min read → - 21COMICS· Publisher
Nagraj at Raj Comics: How a snake-powered hero became India's homegrown superhero
Jun 30, 2026 · 4 min read → - 22ARTS· Painter
Raja Ravi Varma: the painter whose oleographs put gods on every Indian wall
Jun 30, 2026 · 5 min read → - 23FILMS· Superhero
Minnal Murali: how a Kerala tailor became India's lightning-struck superhero
Jun 30, 2026 · 4 min read → - 24COMICS· Creator
Chacha Chaudhary: the turbaned uncle whose brain runs faster than a computer
Jun 30, 2026 · 4 min read → - 25ARTS· Cartoonist
Mario Miranda: the cartoonist who drew all of Goa into the frame
Jun 30, 2026 · 4 min read → - 26FILMS· Cinematic Universe
HanuMan and the rise of the Prasanth Varma Cinematic Universe
Jun 30, 2026 · 4 min read → - 27COMICS· Indian Comics
Independent Indian comics evolve with mature plots and a new readership
Jun 30, 2026 · 2 min read → - 28COMICS· Indian Comics Heritage
Two US universities compete to build the largest archive of Indian comics
Jun 30, 2026 · 2 min read → - 29COMICS· Indian Comics
Hindustan Times opens free access to Indian graphic novels online
Jun 30, 2026 · 2 min read → - 30COMICS· Legacy
Amar Chitra Katha and Uncle Pai: the comics that gave India a route to its roots
Jun 30, 2026 · 5 min read → - 31ARTS· Folk Art
Gond art and Jangarh Singh Shyam: the tribal line that reached the graphic novel
Jun 30, 2026 · 5 min read → - 32FILMS· Franchise
Brahmastra: Part One Shiva and Ayan Mukerji's decade-long Astraverse gamble
Jun 29, 2026 · 4 min read → - 33COMICS· Magazine
Tinkle magazine: how Suppandi and Shikari Shambu became childhood companions for India
Jun 29, 2026 · 4 min read → - 34ARTS· Cartoonist
R. K. Laxman and the Common Man: fifty years of watching India from the corner
Jun 29, 2026 · 5 min read → - 35FILMS· Franchise
From Jadoo to Krrish: how the Roshans built India's first superhero film series
Jun 29, 2026 · 4 min read → - 36COMICS· The Archive
University of Illinois Preserves India's Comic Book Heritage
Jun 29, 2026 · 5 min read → - 37COMICS· Event
Comic Con India: from one Delhi hall in 2011 to a multi-city pop-culture circuit
Jun 29, 2026 · 4 min read → - 38COMICS· The Long Read
India in Panels: Six Decades of Comics, Culture and Imagination
Jun 29, 2026 · 9 min read → - 39ARTS· Tradition
Kalighat painting: the Calcutta bazaar art that now hangs in the V&A
Jun 29, 2026 · 5 min read → - 40FILMS· Cinema
Ra.One: Shah Rukh Khan's 2011 bid to give India its own big-budget superhero
Jun 29, 2026 · 4 min read → - 41COMICS· Graphic Novel
Corridor: the book marketed as India's first graphic novel
Jun 29, 2026 · 4 min read → - 42FILMS· Animation
Chhota Bheem: how Rajiv Chilaka's hero built India's biggest animation empire
Jun 29, 2026 · 4 min read → - 43COMICS· Landmark
Kari and Amruta Patil: India's first female graphic novelist
Jun 29, 2026 · 4 min read → - 44FILMS· Series
The Legend of Hanuman: how a comics house turned a god into a streaming-era hero
Jun 28, 2026 · 4 min read → - 45COMICS· Graphic Biography
Bhimayana: Ambedkar's life retold in Pardhan Gond art
Jun 28, 2026 · 4 min read → - 46FILMS· Film
Bhavesh Joshi Superhero: the grounded Indian vigilante film that became a comic-book cult
Jun 28, 2026 · 4 min read → - 47COMICS· Superhero
Doga: the dog-masked vigilante who became Mumbai's antihero
Jun 28, 2026 · 4 min read → - 48FILMS· Landmark
Hanuman (2005): the animated feature that kickstarted modern Indian theatrical animation
Jun 28, 2026 · 4 min read → - 49COMICS· Digital
The rise of Indian webtoons: inside Toonsutra's mobile comics push
Jun 28, 2026 · 4 min read → - 50FILMS· Industry
From back office to original IP: where India's animation industry actually stands
Jun 28, 2026 · 5 min read → - 51COMICS· Raj Comics
Super Commando Dhruv: The Hero Without Superpowers
Jun 25, 2026 · 7 min read →
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