INDIAN COMICS: PAO COLLECTIVE and THE HOTEL AT THE END OF THE WORLD

I love finding out about comic books from all over the world – stuff that you aren’t likely to find in Diamond Previews. For those of you who like to think outside the long box, it should come as no surprise that the comic book industry in India is on the rise. Not just digitally, but good old-fashioned dead-tree printed comic books and graphic novels.

Indian comic book artist Sarnath Banerjee and his fellow pen-pushers Orijit Sen, Vishwajyoti Ghosh and Amitabh Kumar have joined forces to form the Pao Collective. Aside from the launch of the studio, the group is eagerly promoting the launch of their first book from another one of their friends: Parismita Singh’s debut graphic novel titled The Hotel at the End of the World. It debuted earlier this month from Penguin Books India. You can read a bit more about the book at the Penguin website.

“In the hotel at the end of the world it’s business as usual, as Pema dishes up rice and pork curry to travellers who stop by for a drink and refuge from the rains. Everyone there has a story to tell, and at times they end up revealing more than they want to.”

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