Volume 6 Numbers 1 and 2 | Apr-Sept 2026 Elsewhere Girl Story idea by Nivedha Chandrasekaran | Story by Venita Coelho | Art by Avik Kumar Maitra Nivedha’s pitch: My imagination played a crucial part in my childhood. Whenever I was happy or sad, alone or with friends, I would always end up slipping […]
Volume 6 Numbers 1 and 2 | Apr-Sept 2026 Eyes Beyond the Ordinary Story idea by Twisha Bisen | Story by Francesca Cotta | Art by Harsho Mohan Chattoraj Twisha’s pitch: It was a pleasant morning for 14-year-old Aisha as she was finally going back to school – St Nicholas Convent, after summer vacation. […]
Volume 6 Numbers 1 and 2 | Apr-Sept 2026 No Surprises Story idea by Mohd Yasaar | Story by Nathan D’Costa | Art by Mohith O Yasaar’s pitch: If I had to name my childhood superpower, it would definitely be rizz, (the shortened form of the word charisma, declared as the Oxford Word of […]
Volume 6 Numbers 1 and 2 | Apr-Sept 2026 Lifeline Story idea by Mikaeel Bahrainwala | Story and art by Suhail Naqshbandi Mikaeel’s pitch: Mikaeel sent in his pitch as a scan of a handwritten document. We put him together with Suhail, who helped develop it into a full-length comic. Here’s what Mikaeel’s initial […]
Volume 5 Issue 4 The stories in the issue explore some aspects of how things are remembered. It kicks off with Savage Beast, a heart-wrenching story in which a young Native American is brought face to face with the extinction of his way of life. In The Artefact, a children’s toy from a long-gone era […]
Vol 5 No 4 | Jan-Mar 2026 Savage Beast Story by Sanid Asif Ali | Art by Mohammed Ijaz Origin of the title of this comic During the 1800s, white American settlers and the United States government supported the mass killing of the American bison to weaken and control Indigenous people. An Indian Affairs […]
Vol 5 No 4 | Jan-Mar 2026 The Artefact Story by Mohd Salman | Art by Annada Menon History is exciting. It is vast, complicated and often messy. It demands an open mind for ideas and perspectives different from our own. It requires dull things such as nuance and context, even from the casual […]
Vol 5 No 4 | Jan-Mar 2026 A Whiff of Rice and Gunpowder. Story and art by Amalendu Kaushik A Personal Memory, Not Just History This is a personal story. It is rooted in memories passed down from my mother’s childhood in Assam during the 1980s and early ’90s, a time when everyday life […]
Vol 5 No 4 | Jan-Mar 2026 Flying off the Shelves Story by Eleanor Chiari and Subir Dey | Art by Subir Dey Our comic is set at the end of the 19th century and traces the movement of a single bird, an Asian Fairy Blue Bird, from its home in Bengal, to a […]
Vol 5 No 4 | Jan-Mar 2026 The Story of Mahabali Story and art by Pranav P. Holla The comic explores the multiple identities of Mahabali, the great Asura King whom Malayalis all over the world revere and welcome during the festival of Onam. Currently, a single image of Mahabali dominates storefronts, banners and […]
