Lokesh Khodke Artist Lokesh Khodke is an independent comics maker, artist, illustrator, and art educator. He is currently working as Director of Education at ArtFirst Foundation, where he leads the organisation and the team to create art-based curriculums for teacher training programmes across India. He has published several comic books and illustrated several children’s books. […]
Kruttika Susarla Artist Kruttika Susarla is an illustrator and cartoonist from Andhra Pradesh, working across editorial illustration, picture books, and comics. She collaborates with community-engaged organisations to create books, zines, and toolkits. Her self-published comics tell stories of connection, community, and labour. Insta: kruttika In Comixense: The First Language War (Vol 5 Issue 2 | […]
Nita Bajoria Writer Nita has an MFA degree in creative writing and is fond of travelling. She has penned a series of graphic novels titled ‘Urban Chronicles’. Urban women’s fiction is her forte. Insta: bajorianita In Comixense: The Last Song of the Desert (Vol 5 Issue 3 | Oct-Dec 2025), The Game (Vol 4 Issue […]
Pia Alize Hazarika Artist is an illustrator primarily interested in comics and visual narrative. Her independent/collaborative work has been published by Penguin India (The PAO Anthology), COMIX.INDIA, Manta Ray Comics, The Pulpocracy, Captain Bijli Comics, Yoda Press, Zubaan Books and the Khoj Artists Collective. She runs ‘PIG studio’, an illustration-driven space, based out of New […]
Sanid Asif Ali Writer Sanid is a comic writer-illustrator from Kochi. He runs an independent comic publishing house Studio Niyet with his wife Rameeza Parveen. He has acted as the co-editor of the anthology comic Hope On, a collection of real-life stories of women who find hope in tough circumstances, and has created comic books […]
Priyanka Paul Artist Priyanka Paul is a self-taught illustrator and writer from Bombay. Their work revolves around the themes of social justice, marginalisation and self-exploration, and has been published and exhibited globally. Insta: artwhoring In Comixense: The Tyranny of Beauty (Vol 1 Issue 4 | January-March 2022)
Rini Joseph Writer Rini is a multi-disciplinary artist who works with paintings, ceramics, poetry and embroidery. She is an anti-caste feminist currently working under a visual arts grant provided by Mavelinadu Collective. She enjoys birding, rock pooling and people-watching by the beach in her free time. She finds inspiration in getting lost in nature and […]
Keya Lall Artist Keya Lall is an illustrator whose work involves many specimens of creatures and characters both real and fantastical, set in worlds both magical and mundane. Insta: keyalall In Comixense: Kamma Chameleon (Vol 3 Issue 4 | Jan-Mar 2024)
Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar Writer Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar is a doctor and Sahitya award-winning writer based in Jharkhand. His published books include The Mysterious Ailment of Rupi Baskey, The Adivasi Will Not Dance, My Father’s Garden and Jwala Kumar and the Gift of Fire: Adventures in Champakbagh. He won the 2015 Yuva Puraskar for his debut […]
Rajiv Eipe Artist Rajiv Eipe lives in Bengaluru and works on animation and illustration projects. He likes to doodle in a sketchbook, drink more coffee than is good for him, maintain an untidy workspace and gaze vacantly into space at short intervals. Insta: rajiveipe In Comixense: Cupid’s Crime (Vol 4 Issue 2 | July-Sep 2024), […]
