Right, so my first contribution to Wikipedia was about this gentleman who can lay claim to a major chunk of my childhood.
Of course, I will have to do some heavy-duty research to get his complete bibliography in, but something’s better than nothing.
Coming soon: entries for Amar Chitra Katha, Tinkle, Target, Indrajal comics. Also Chandamama, if I can sniff out enough information about it. Seems like my next trip to Guwahati will involve some major back-issue digging.
P.S: I don’t think I will be filling in anything about Pran or Chacha Choudhury or any of those darned Diamond comics. Let Mr. Vishal Patel do the honours.
P.P.S: Vishal, the poor chap ran out of bandwidth for his site. Double damn.
My hero!
Damn, you stole my line.
All the best, Beatzo :-)
Alas, an end to my promising career as Faithful Sidekick. ;-)
Do for Teens Today too..
Yeeesh. I hated that magazine. It sounded like a wannabe guide.
but it was the updated version of Target, right?
of course target was the best!
Teens Today had nothing in common with Target, except they were brought out by the same company, the Today Group. Target was a collection of stories, articles, funny columns, comicstrips and generally anything you would associate with a well-done children’s magazine. Teens Today was a mishmash of agony-aunt columns and lame “how-to”s ( stuff like “what to gift your girlfriend on Valentine’s Day” )
Crap, packaged in a twenty-five rupees magazine. And the covers were more horrible than anything else I had seen before. It was a disaster from the start, a year later the price was reduced to fifteen rupees, and after that, it quietly folded.
That’s quite well put.. but cause Teens Today had started at the time when we are going from Ten’s to Teens, I thought it was a good move by India Today group.. i felt as if the decision was for our generation ! :) It had some good information though, i would still like to believe..
Hmmm… good work!!!
Thank you! :)
Up Beatzo!
hmm?
Up what??? ;-)
;-)
Everybody is upping their beatzos. Up yours.
Re: ;-)
Ahahahahahaha.
Good Work!!!!!!
Thank you!
Wow.
FINALLY!
And he couldn’t have asked for a better biographer ;)
(ppsssst! More comic book/manga entries s’il vous plait!)
*blush*
Thank you!
Good show!
Who exactly was Dara? Isn’t Dara the Sabu-sized nemesis of chacha C who cannot be killed ?
Remember, no entry of Indrajal can be complete without the mention of Aditya, the man from nowhere.:P
Chacha Chowdhury’s arch nemesis was Raaka, sire, and not Dara. Dara was a secret agent, the only true-blue Indian secret agent who had a secret identity – he was the prince of a mountain retreat – Raja Jang Bahadur or something. pretty decent story and artwork – art was by one of the regulars for Target, Tapas Guha, most likely.
Raaka! The chap who wouldn’t die thanks to some dose of some immortality potion :).
Dara is new news though.
Pandit Chakramachari’s immortality potion. I remember, there were about 15 decapitations in the first Raaka comic. It was for children, you see. ;-)
Get off the internet!!:P
Good work!
He gave a talk at my school some time back and it was fascinating to hear him describe the work that goes into a single comic book.
By the way, I saw a new Indian comic strip in the Mid-day newspaper yesterday. Just in the unlikely case you didn’t know. :)
I want to meet the guy! :-(
Which comic strip is it, by the way? Available online?
I don’t remember the name of the strip. Will let you know the next time I buy a Mid-day.