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 remember, in my school days when comics were a rage among kids. local brands like Diamond comics, Manoj comics and Raj comics published 6-8 titles every month which used to be called a set. there were our regular book corners which used to rent it out on 25 or 50 paise per comic book. they sometimes came up with special issue which were publicized as 3D comics. these comics were packed in a fancy wrapping and were provided with a spectacles which had red and blue coloured lenses. It never became popular but had a novelty value to it recently, I visited raj comics website. they had changed it's layout and improved it visually. there, I found some links to 3D comics download. http://www.rajcomics.com/ 3D comic covers on Raj comics website