A magic gate to mystery was flung open in the later days of my school life by Herge, Goscinny and Uderzo--- and yet later, by The Marvel Comics and Will Eisner. Oscar Zarate, I discovered much later, in the early nineties. Sequential Art, as a discernible discipline alongside filmmaking, drew me much later when a crazy friend wanted me to work on his story :The Adventures of Timpa – a Tintin lookalike ( much to my dismay). But I developed the characters and did the artworks for this 36-page book ( 4 col ). All alone.
Of course I was happy when it was exhibited at and certified by BD’87, Switzerland.
Other comic strips followed in some vernacular dailies in India and Bangladesh.
Life and Times for The Statesman is about a typically urban, nucleus family of papa,mama and a precocious brat whose entire universe is their tiny hole of a flat with a television and a computer as the only link to the outer world.
The countless folktales that we have in our country can be a rich storehouse for so many comic strips ! And that is significant too ! From an archival point of view.