written by Annie Zaidi
illustrated by Rajiv Eipe
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The Small Picture is best viewed in the newspaper edition of Mint, where it first appears every Wednesday. This piece was published on 3 April2013.
by Gokul Gopalakrishnan
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The Small Picture is best viewed in the newspaper edition of Mint, where it first appears every Wednesday. This piece was published on 27 March2013.
by Akhila Krishnan
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The Small Picture is best viewed in the newspaper edition of Mint, where it first appears every Wednesday. This piece was published on 20 March2013.
by Hemant Anant Jain
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The Small Picture is best viewed in the newspaper edition of Mint, where it first appears every Wednesday. This piece was published on 13 March2013.
PRELUDES poster by the talented Mr. Jasjyot.
The ‘loop’ has a more ominous role in Love Like A Sunset, the 2nd story in the collection illustrated by Jasjyot.
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PRELUDES is here.
Stories by Pratheek Thomas
Art by Pia Alize Hazarika | Archana Sreenivasan | Jasjyot Singh Hans | Prabha Mallya
Edited by Dileep Cherian
Manta Ray’s Digital Firsts. 66 pages. In PDF and CBZ formats.
Available here.
by Pratheek Thomas
Last week, Toren Smith, founder of Studio Proteus, passed away. He was 52.
Though I knew of Studio Proteus (and loved their logo), I had no clue who Toren Smith was until yesterday, and realized that he was a pioneer who first brought Manga to the US.
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“Bangalore is full of manga fans!” A comic book creator friend tells me. I’m not one of them, however. I’ve never been a manga fan, all the manga I’ve read can be counted on three fingers: Lone Wolf and Cub. Akira. (Strangely, I was under the impression that there’s a third one. Guess not.)
I did try Blade of the Immortal - but soon tired of the storyline. I also tried to read Buddha (many times), but could never really latch on to it. And while I’ve heard of/ seen Naruto, Bleach, Fullmetal Alchemist, Oldboy and others, I was never enticed enough to give them a try.
But, Lone Wolf and Cub.
It doesn’t matter if I’ve not been enthralled by any other manga, for me this one story is enough.
28 volumes spanning 2000+ pages of unforgettable characters in a truly epic tale (and the ‘epic’ status is more than deserved). By the time I reached the 20th book, I thought that Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima would have exhausted of every possible way in which swords and knives and guns and cannons can be used in combat. And then they reinvented it again, as the story thundered on to it’s heart-wrenching, inevitable, perfect ending. I could go on, of course, but that’s not the intent of this post.
by Prabha Mallya
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The Small Picture is best viewed in the newspaper edition of Mint, where it first appears every Wednesday. This piece was published on 06 March2013.
written by Rahul Bhatia
Illustrated by Prabha Mallya
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The Small Picture is best viewed in the newspaper edition of Mint, where it first appears every Wednesday. This piece was published on 01 March2013.