Vol 3 No 1 | Apr-Jun 2023 Behroopiya Story by Mohd Salman | Art by Nikhil Gulati Very little of the world’s landmass today really counts as ‘unexplored’. Spend a little time on the internet (or a library, if you have access to a good one) and you can find out all you need about […]
Avik Kumar Maitra Artist Avik Kumar Maitra is a freelance comics artist and illustrator from Kolkata. Apart from a few years of weekend art classes in his childhood, he is completely self-taught, learning to draw from comics, picture books, and newspaper photographs. He started illustrating in the popular Bengali children’s magazine Sandesh in 1998 (while […]
Nandita Basu Writer Nandita Basu is a pianist and a graphic novelist. She juggles between teaching the piano and writing graphic novels and trying not to do anything at all. Her graphic novels ‘The Piano, a story of a friendship’ and ‘Rain Must Fall’ have been published by PRH Duckbill. Several of her other independent […]
Haasini Casukhela Artist An avid manga reader, Haasini couldn’t help but gravitate toward art, design, and comics after a brief time in architecture. She’s worked in conservation architecture, data visualization, and in the development of a curriculum to teach children art and animation. She loves to travel because the long, quiet moments in between places […]
Kavita Singh Kale Artist An alumna of NID Ahmedabad and the College of Art, Delhi University, Kavita Singh Kale has many years of industry experience in broadcast design, children’s content creation, animation filmmaking and transmedia art practice. She has illustrated for a wide range of clients in publishing for both adults and children, and has […]
Jay Kshirsagar Writer Jay Kshirsagar has often thought of his life as an experiment. A series of what-ifs that tends to lead him to ways of living that are improvised and that break any patterns of orthodoxy that are bound to build up over time. In art, he is able to focus on himself or […]
Francesca Cotta Writer Francesca Cotta is a Goan writer and editor who has worked with publications such as Soup, Comixense and Sanctuary Asia. She is also an environmental campaigner, and has worked with several organisations and citizen movements to help bring about awareness and action on climate change, conservation and sustainability. Insta: frenchfried06 In Comixense: […]
Mohammad Salman Writer is a development communications professional and speculative fiction writer from Lucknow. His work has appeared in the Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction, Kitaab and other anthologies. Salman counts Terry Pratchett and Isaac Asimov among his inspirations, dreaming of creating a legendarium of his own one day. He has a Bachelor’s […]
Falah Faisal Writer Falah Faisal is a retired stand-up comic and an aspiring filmmaker. Comics are where both those worlds combine perfectly. He’s the creator of Musalman (India’s only Muslim superhero) and Falahdeen (a modern stoner take on the classic Alladin story). Insta: gonzogram66 In Comixense: Jaane Wale Sipahi (Vol 2 Issue 2 | July-September […]
Archana Sreenivasan Artist Archana Sreenivasan is a freelance illustrator whose work has been published in magazines, children’s books, book covers and comics, both in India and abroad. She studied Animation Film Design at National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. In 2015 she attended the Summer Residency in Illustration at School of Visual Arts, New York. She […]
