The other day P and i took a visiting uncle and aunt of mine over to the Blossoms book store on Church street. I went about hunting for any copies of the old Indrajal comics that i could lay my hands on. I was thrilled to find well preserved copies of Phantom, Mandrake, Bahadur, Flash Gordan and Buz Sawyer, each about Rs.30 but i think worth the bargain. It was so nostalgic to flip through them. I was so thrilled to have found them and i sketched them, the first sketches of these heroes after i re-discovered them in my adult life.
The other day P and i took a visiting uncle and aunt of mine over to the Blossoms book store on Church street. I went about hunting for any copies of the old Indrajal comics that i could lay my hands on. I was thrilled to find well preserved copies of Phantom, Mandrake, Bahadur, Flash Gordan and Buz Sawyer, each about Rs.30 but i think worth the bargain. It was so nostalgic to flip through them. I was so thrilled to have found them and i sketched them, the first sketches of these heroes after i re-discovered them in my adult life.
4 comments:
Nice sketch. I've been asking for a sketch of mine for centuries now. And you rediscover these heroes and get inspired right away?
It is a masterpiece in the making ;-)
ahha... now there is no getting away from actually making it, after announcing it to the world :)
I was an avid reader of MANDRAKE THE magician which used to appear in THE MALAYALA MANORAMA PAPER ( translated into malayalam ) as a comic serial. Every mornig I used to run to another house( for we used to get the paper late in our house after seniors have read it and I could not wait a few hours to satisfy my curiosity) to read it spreading the paper on the floor and crouching myself on two legs. How I wished at that time for a full length comic book on MANDRAKE.In fact my imagination received a pep through those comics. His vertical hat straight mustache and flyinfg tie with the well ironed coat , all made me love the character. it is good to know that these coic strips are available in the from of books now ( in those days we could not even dream of it ,then !!!). How I wish the children of today , who are really lucky, get these books and read it instead of becomeing COUCH potatoes.it will definitlay fire their curiosity and wonder which will remain with them throguhout their lives . A mature person is one who has never lost the child in him. A paradox but it is true.
A good piece of sharing of experience which has really made me go back dwon thousands of km. and recover some wonderful which I had as a primary school boy in Thiruvalla , a small town in Kerala.Sometimes NOSTALGIA makes one young and more energetic to pull out more of it from one's fossilised past. Liquid present freezes into past and vapourises into the future!!! . More of these types of words are welcome.
rama bahratha varma
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