Drighangchoo
Drighangchoo is an independent magazine published from Kolkata (earlier Calcutta), India and it is the first print magazine in India to deal exclusively with "mature" comics and sequential graphic art. The magazine devotes most of its contents to comics for "mature readers", and its name draws inspiration from a fable of the same name by Sukumar Ray, which is about a troubled king's search for a mystery crow. The magazine started off in 2009 when six comics enthusiasts from Jadavpur University and an alumnus got together and decided to start a not-for-profit print magazine on comics for Indian readers. The first issue of Drighangchoo was published in July, 2009.
Unlike the focus of "mainstream" Indian comics which heavily borrows from the syndicated superhero comics of the North, the issues of Drighangchoo encourage local artists and the use of serious story-telling through black-and-white sequential art in the traditional comics format, and the use of experimental and indigenous Indian artistic styles. The narratives in Drighangchoo mostly use Bengali or English as interface languages, and also the wordless form. The magazine is published bi-annually from "under the (crow-infested) trees" of one of the student canteens of Jadavpur University, and has a small number of devoted and enthusiastic readers from the city of Kolkata, and outside.
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Reviews of Drighangchoo
- "Inspired by a crow" in The Telegraph, Calcutta, August 09, 2009
- "Comic Relief" in The Indian Express, July 03, 2009,