The Great Ganesha

SAJA (the South Asian Journalist’s Association) has an article on their forum today, highlighting an excellent montage of magazine covers featuring anything and everything South Asian leading all the way back to 1921.
My favorites are from the real early years, like this New Yorker cover from 1931 (when it cost fifteen cents!).

These covers really make [...]

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Let’s face it. All of us desis grew up reading Archie comics. And I’ve blogged about it before.

I was definitely an addict. I would look forward to going to the “library” (which, in 80s Bombay were basically privately run places where you could borrow books for cash) and picking up a stack of Archies. The [...]

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I blogged about Tintin earlier, when someone from Moldova dropped by the blog. Moldova was once a part of Moldavia, on which Herg? based the fictitious nation of Syldavia (from The Calculus Affair, amongst others).
This time, it’s less a case of life meeting comic-book art, than a case of virtual life meeting comic- book art. [...]

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