#appupen

Having written and/or illustrating several myself it is fair to say that I have a soft spot for encyclopedias / guides to folkloric entities and beasts, especially the darker beings. Folklore is such a vast and diverse field and unless you are multilingual so much of it still remains hidden from many readers. Therefore it is a welcome treasure for me when English language tomes covering creatures…

Remember ‘CID Moosa’? This docu series captures the magic of Malayalam comics

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Tony Davis and Sreeram KV are behind the documentary series ‘Kadha Vara Kadhakal’ on YouTube.

That day, Sreeram KV and Tony Davis were attending a quiz as part of an event by Chai Pe Quiz, an informal quiz club in Kochi. A question was asked about Kannadi Viswanathan and Tony was quick to answer it. Viswanathan is the creator of one of Tony’s favourite Malayalam comics, CID Moosa. After…

Day 9 of 30 days of Kokaachi

This primeval Kokaachi is an inhabitant of Halahala, the world that our good friend Appupen has been creating (and still is) over the past 5+ years. While almost everyone else in the Indian comics scene was busy rehashing and retelling existing mythologies, Appupen created his own bold, original & visionary universe of stories, one that we're utterly in awe of.

Shweta Taneja

  This was just sent by Harper Collins team. It’s the cover of Anantya Tantrist’s first adventure in book format and I feel butterflies the size of dinosaurs in somewhere in the deep dark pits of my being. So I wanted to distract myself by telling you all a story. (For that’s what stories are […]

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How the kind Appupen drew Anantya’s cover

  This was just sent by Harper Collins team. It’s the cover of Anantya Tantrist’s first adventure in book format and I feel butterflies the size of dinosaurs in somewhere in the deep dark pits of my being. So I wanted to distract myself by telling you all a story. (For that’s what stories are for, no?) This one is the story of an incredible artist and his various kindnesses.

On a lazy Sunday a…