Young Contributors Volume 6 Numbers 1 and 2 | Apr-Sept 2026 Art by Harsho Mohan Chattoraj   This special issue of Comixense magazine consists of comics developed from pitches sent in by young people in response to the question “What is your Childhood Superpower?” These are the Young Contributors whose stories are featured in the […]

Volume 6 Numbers 1 and 2 First up in the current issue is The Morphlings, set around a young boy’s surprisingly deep empathy for animals, which helps in a handful of stirring rescues. In The Glitch Kid, the eponymous protagonist is enmeshed in a reality that’s beginning to crack apart and reveal a twisted technological […]

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 […]

Volume 5 Issue 3 This issue, the second of two on Language, is themed ‘Language and Expression’, and contains six stories. In The Burning Stories, a storyteller in an ancient land is banned from using the language of the court and turns to the language of the people to get his tales across. An old […]

Volume 5 Issue 2 The stories in this issue looks at the multifarious aspects of language and meaning. The First Language War is an account of the first anti-Hindi agitation of the Tamil people in 1938. The Poet Who Became a Tree is an excerpt from a longer comic about the legacy of the enigmatic […]

Volume 5 Issue 1 The stories in this issue revolve around various meanings of the theme ‘Space’. Soul Searching is a humourous point of view of a ghost searching for a hideaway in a hospital crowded with other souls. The Escape Plan delves into the thoughts of a foetus growing within the constraints of its […]

Volume 4 Issue 4 The stories in this issue offer insights into various concepts of utopia and dystopia. Chasing Utopia is about an architect who tries to make the best of Muhammad bin Tughlaq’s plan to shift his kingdom’s centre from Delhi to Daulatabad, but his dream is quickly dismantled by the foolishness of the […]

Volume 4 Issue 3 Leila Khaled and The Struggle for Liberation is the real-life story of a Palestinian woman freedom fighter. The Game tells the tale of two girls who enjoy playing the board game Catan only to discover that similar trade-offs apply to their workplace. U Turn is a wordless comic about a woman […]

Volume 4 Issue 2 Cupid’s Crime is based on the harrowing imprisonment of a young man wrongly accused by his girlfriend’s parents in a bid to keep them apart. Silent Revelations narrates a childhood incident that shaped a young man’s career choice to fight for justice. Whose Crime Is It Anyway? explores the human-animal conflicts […]

Volume 4 Issue 1 Titled ‘The Fellowship of Food’, this issue offers diverse perspectives on food and its inter-connectedness with culture. In the comic Ukai, a boy’s experience with the tradition of cormorant fishing in Japan obliges him to re-consider its relevance in modern times. Eating Saraswati’s Bahon takes us to Assam where a young […]