num_pages: 256
description: Combining entertainment and education India's most beloved comic book series Amar Chitra Katha or Immortal Picture Stories is also an important cultural institution that has helped define for several generations of readers what it means to be Hindu and Indian. Karline McLain worked in the ACK production offices and had many conversations with Anant Pai founder and publisher and with artists writers and readers about why the comics are so popular and what messages they convey. In this intriguing study she explores the making of the comic books and the kinds of editorial and ideological choices that go into their production.
language: English
title: India's Immortal Comic Books: Gods, Kings, and Other Heroes
publisher: Indiana University Press