Year full of Comics… And WE’RE BACK !

It’s a kind of eerie feeling of déjà vu, to see us back in the blogging ways after more than a year. And like the last time we blogged, it’s the start of another day where a comic event is taking place, this time in the garden city of Bengaluru. Times have indeed changed, on both personal and professional front – which has kept us occupied for a prolonged period on new priorities of life. But, believe us we were only waiting for a reason to be back. You would do well to take note of the recent changes in our blogs layout, with featured posts and color combinations. Including the use of jQuery and DisQus commenting, tools we long wanted to implement for the smooth transition effect noticed on the blogs. It might have been a lull period for Comicology, as far as Blogging Blogging is concerned, but the atmosphere around Indian Comics have never been better anytime before. The old-timers, Raj, Diamond...

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Comic Con India – New Delhi - 2011

In another few hours, India will have its first-ever Comic Con, a kind of which have been in existence in Americas, Europas, and Japan, for near 4 decades, but only has been in talk in India up recently. It’s truly a chance for India, to stake its claim in the international arena, with its range of offerings, which aren’t dictated by the Westerners or the Easterners. We here at Comicology, give you a heads-up on with few know-hows, and about what you could expect from the 2-day event extravaganza, set to showdown at the capital city of New Delhi. Convention for Comics, what about Book Fairs then? Books and its related Conventions have happened over the years, since the time it has come into existence. While a general Book Convention brings readers of all genre’s, it doesn’t focus on one particular way of story telling, or that matter an original take. Comics are the one’s which takes the story telling, and keeps it close to the ways...

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Chennai Book Fair – 2011 : Part 2 of 2

We continue our coverage of Chennai Book Fair 2011 (CBF 2011). The first part of the same can be found here, detailing ACK’s Tamil launch. Vandumama and Vanathi If NHM was the talk of the Book fair, among Tamil Comic fans, then Vanathi Publishers (aka Vanathi Pathipagam, as its called in the native language) had its own share among the Nostalgic crowd, which grew reading the inspired writings by acclaimed children writer, Mr. V.Krishna Murthy, more famously known among the masses under his nickname, Vandumama. Being not so regular reader of Literary world, I am not much akin to the various publishing houses which ships out their range of titles every year. That includes Vanathi Publishers, whom I thought that had a tryst with Comics for sometime in the past, but never knew that they still are actively involved in promoting the old classics of Tamil Comics. Right after the Chennai Book Fair 2010, a fellow Comiker alerted that Vanathi...

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Chennai Book Fair – 2011 : Part 1 of 2

Season’s rainfall might have played hide and seek, in this Southern city of India, for the New Year, but one common thing which has gelled with the book-fetish of Chennai, for the past 34 years, was starting the year with a place to cherish their reading passion, which is slowly taking a beating in this Instant world of World Wide Web, and Social Networking. January 2011, saw BAPASI hosting its 34th Chennai Book Fair, to kick off the new year, and we hoped to cover the event just like 33rd Chennai Book Fair, where we covered the news and events as it happened from the ground. But the reality and the disappointment surrounding the organizing of Book Fair, sunk in our resolve, and let the efforts of covering the event go down in vain. But, as I met and interacted with the fellow comikers, I realized that they were keen for our blog to continue reporting on our finds from the event, keeping aside the personal likes and dislikes (which I...

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