Vol 1 Issue 4 | January-March 2022 Died in the Wool Text and art by Anupam Arunachalam This might not be easy to appreciate in a world where most industrial paint is made in labs using chemicals, but in the old world, colour used to come from things. Specifically, natural things. In ancient […]
Vol 1 Issue 4 | January-March 2022 Finding Mumtaz Story by Anushka Ravishankar | Art by Mainak Mitra Charbagh: the Magic of Four The Charbagh, the garden that begins at the gate and ends at the base of the mausoleum, is one of the most striking aspects of the Taj Mahal. It is […]
Volume 1 Issue 4 In the January-March 2022 issue of Comixense, a young comics creator unpacks her relationship with ideals of beauty in The Tyranny of Beauty, a yesteryears film star finds liberation in becoming invisible to the public eye in Sitara Devi, a queer man learns to accept tattooing as a beautiful art form […]
Varud Gupta Writer Varud is the award-winning author of the graphic novel Chhotu: A Tale of Love and Partition (Comic Con India “Best Writer”) and the travelogue Bhagwaan Ke Pakwaan: Food of the Gods (Gourmand for “Peace”). His writing also frequently appears in National Geographic Traveller and Mint Lounge. He began his career as a […]
Triparna Maiti Artist Triparna Maiti is an animation artist, illustrator and writer. She is an alumna of the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute (SRFTI), Kolkata with specialisation in Animation Cinema. Her latest short film ‘Neer’ (‘Water’) has been an official selection at various prestigious festivals like Anifilm in Třeboň, Czech Republic, Monstra in Lisbon, […]
Quizzes and games This section consists of pages with answers to quizzes and games featured in Comixense magazine. Quiz: Tales from the Script Vol 5 Issue 3 | Oct-Dec 2025 Second part of a set of quiz questions on languages and the way they are written, covering scripts across history and geography, from ancient […]
Volume 1 Issue 3 | October-December 2021 Quiz: Spy gadgets James Bond has his marvellous gadgets that may be too good to be true, but real-life spies and agencies have also used mindboggling tools to carry out their espionage activities. This article took a peek at these, and featured quiz questions related to some […]
Volume 1 Issue 3 | October-December 2021 Challenge: Code-breaking Fatima, Amay, Mani and Piyali – who refer to themselves as the Fundoo 4 – enjoy doing exciting things during their holidays. In this challenge, Piyali has set the others a series of coded messages, which you have to decipher. Here are the solutions. The […]
Volume 1 Issue 3 The October 2021 issue of Comixense begins with Hum Dekhenge, where two roommates in a girls’ hostel conspire to stand up to the stifling rules of their institution. In Bond… Jamal Bond, an agent with high-flying dreams finds himself ensnared in a tale of two borders. On the House is a […]
Vol 1 Issue 3 | October-December 2021 Hum Dekhenge Story by Francesca Cotta | Art by Kruttika Susarla Hum Dekhenge In 2013, I left my home in Goa to attend college in Pune. As with most of the first-year students, my parents found me a hostel in the vicinity of my new campus. The […]
