November 28, 2011
Go, Read: BBC On Traditional Indian Comics Market In Decline
There's nothing shocking in
this article about how kids in India today might just prefer watching TV or playing video games to reading comic books as their parents and grandparents apparently did. Two things recommend the piece, though. The first is novelty. There's almost no writing on a regular basis about the traditional Indian comics market. You see mentions when someone dies, but most of the pieces I see are about the opportunities for English-language comics from other countries and a homegrown alt-comics type movement. The second is that it always seems obvious to me when I read articles like this how comics in general made the transition from more of a mass medium to pretty much a secondary art form, something that took years of Batman-Over-Bane's-knee type market correction for US players to understand, if they even understand it now.
i'm only about 80 percent sure that's a traditional Indian comic book above, but I sure liked the looks of it
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