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)

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 […]

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 […]

Mainak Mitra Artist Mainak Mitra is an independent comic artist and animation filmmaker. Originally from the small town of Bengal, he studied Fine Arts from MSU Baroda. Mainak is currently pursuing his post-graduation in Animation Design from IDC Bombay. Mainak likes to draw, and lives to tell a story. Insta: boyofmittirz In Comixense: Finding Mumtaz […]

Nayna Yadav Artist Nayna is a graphic designer and illustrator. She enjoys illustration, graphic design, branding, writing, and just generally creating. She has worked as an art director, illustrator, graphic designer and an assistant professor at a design school. Insta: naynayadav_ In Comixense: Sitara Devi (Vol 1 Issue 4 | January-March 2022)

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 […]