PPS' Scrapbook

Ghasiram is a Hindi comic book which I created in my school days. that was the period,when comics were really popular among kids and I always wished to be a cartoonist or say a comics creator. I used to read a lot of Hindi Comics which used to get published from Delhi and Mumbai. Names like Diamond comics , Manoj comics and Raj comics were craze in small towns. then there were Amar Chitra Katha , Indrajaal comics and Tinkle magazine. there was a small comics store called 'Vijay Book Centre' in my town. He used to rent out comics and also had a reading bunker. often, in summers he used get a lot of stock of comics from Mayapuri Delhi. this stock had a lot of Hindi translation of American and European comics. that's when I got introduced to characters like Asterix, Lucky Luke, Tintin, Axa, Laurel and Hardy . When, I got little more mature, I started enjoying foreign syndicated comic strips in the English newspapers. It had a subtle humor sense and had a lot of vis...

I have always admired Ajit Ninan's cartoons. In fact what I really like is his visual detailing in the composition. Each character looks so natural and part of the environment. The ease with which he draws is shown in the frame and definitely indicates that his observation is real solid. He has same ease, sense n observation as the Belgian artist Albert Uderzo (ASTERIX fame). I am sure he must have had experience in animation. It shows in his cartoons. His recent series in Times of India POLI-TRICKS uses “Metamorphosis” which is frequently used in Animation. You can see his online cartoons on this TOI web link: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/nw/1118942.cms