Comixense

COMIXENSE

Comixense is a comics quarterly aimed primarily at teenagers between 12 and 17 years old, launched in April 2021. The magazine touches upon all aspects of life that young people in India encounter today – presented in a manner that credits their intelligence, imagination, and empathy.

Each issue of the magazine will contain a bunch of stories related to a broad theme. The current issue explores notions of performance, through the stories listed below.

CURRENT ISSUE

Volume 3 Issue 2

This issue explores variations on the idea of performance. In The Poet and The Prisoner, a researcher and a single-cell organism team up to free a prisoner from an AI-controlled city. Along Came a Spider takes a peek at the courting rituals of the tiny peacock spider. In the story Behind the Scenes, we glimpse the early years of Leonardo da Vinci’s theatre work and its creative impact on his most famous paintings. In the humorous comic, Anybody Can Dance, a plus-size girl takes a chance with dance lessons. Death Zone examines the athletic prowess of Sherpas who assist climbers to summit mountains. In The Mudmen of Asaro, a teenage visitor stumbles across two feuding groups with competing stories to tell.