Though India had comic strips even as back as in early 60's, those were syndicated western strips, later resized and published in comic format. that's why those had nothing like a title page and Cover's were invariably drawn by an Indian artist. those were the days when we were beginning to learn how to read a comic book, rather than how to produce one! I could still recall myself going through a Phantom's comic umpteenth times, flipping through panels after panels and finding jerks in the flow. I tried to fill the jerky spaces with my own captions or dialogues, as required and only after that I could have a satisfiable feeling! It was an absolute amateurish attempt to mend the works of Greats, but looking back now, I feel those were my earliest self-taught lessons in the field of sequential art, even though I wasn't aware that such a term even existed. I kept on reading TOI comic for next 10 years not only as a reader, but also as a self appointed editor. But it changed only as much as condition of lane in front of my residence with quality of Illustrations and stories riding a roller coaster.
Then one day, I laid my hand on a totally different looking double colored comic titled' VEER PANDAVAS by a brand new publications called Amar Chitra Katha!
Maybe things would change now! Wouldn't they?
Things can change if Indian comics evolves itself.
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