Browsing: Stories

Midway through the 1990s, the sausage festiest decade of American comics, Viz Media miraculously published three volumes’ worth of shojo (girls’) and josei (women’s) manga, collected inShojo Stories,A, A’,andLove Song.These books, the Holy Trilogy of old shojo, affected my college-age self too deeply for me to judge them objectively. It’s as useless to ask me…

Superman has reached a new level of popularity, thanks to the DCU. 2025’s Superman was a hit and, unlike its MCU counterparts was actually comic accurate, it brought fans to the comic stores in a way that previous superhero movies haven’t. There’s way more interest in the Man of Steel than there’s been in years…

I’ve always been captivated by artists’ sketchbooks. They’re wonderful places for experimentation: random drawings, collages, taped notes, found objects, and whatever else helps make sense of an idea before it’s fully formed. Memory has always felt much the same way to me: a collection of fragments, fleeting images, and moments that seem random, but rarely…

With monsoon extending its cosy embrace on our windowpanes, and the moody grey skies casting a surreal spell on our minds, it is time to indulge in some slice-of-life stories or imaginative escapades which take you through the pages into faraway lands. Monsoon’s cosy ambience calls for visual as well as imaginative storytelling, for which…

The Punisher hit the big screen recently with his appearance in the Spider-Man: Brand New Day, which is kind of appropriate given that he debuted in Amazing Spider-Man #129 in 1974. However, what got me thinking about this piece was the fact that his first solo outing was in Punisher Vol. 1 (1986), about 40…

MUMBAI: For Abundantia Entertainment, the business of storytelling has always been about seeing the opportunity before everyone else does. Over the past twelve years, the studio has steadily built a slate around women-first stories, backing films and series such as Shakuntala Devi, Sherni, Jalsa, Chhorii, Daldal and the recently released Maa Behen. What may once have…